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Chapter 3 – Growing pains

Healer's lair, the present

Barbas was pacing, watching Wyatt. He saw Wyatt's memory, but he wasn't satisfied.

Barbas: "So Gideon held you for four months. I already knew that, I helped him, remember? That still doesn't explain why you want your father to suffer."

Big Wyatt: "It's none of your business."

Barbas: "You're wrong, kid. I need to know exactly why you are doing this, so I'd know you won't double-cross me in the future."

Big Wyatt: "I don't expect a demon like you to understand."

Barbas grabbed Wyatt by his shirt and said "Well, help me understand, or I won't help you."

Big Wyatt: "You'll never understand how I felt, coming home after all those months, watching my parents with my baby brother. They left me with Gideon and didn't bother to look for me; they were too busy playing with their little baby. They never asked me how I felt or what I remembered or talked about how I was kidnapped and why, they just ignored it. I was a little kid and I didn't even know who was the guy that kidnapped me and why did he take me from my family. I found out Gideon was responsible for kidnapping me only a few years ago from reading my mother's journal."

Wyatt didn't resist Barbas, although he could. He needed Barbas for now, and he felt drained of his energy, after reliving those memories.

Barbas: "Then show me, or I would find another plan to attack the Charmed Ones, a plan that doesn't involve you."

Wyatt said "Fine" and then his mind drifted to another place, his past…

2009

The Manor

Phoebe is huge; she is seven months pregnant with her first daughter. She is sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching Piper's sons as Chris asks to play with Wyatt and they begin to fight.

Phoebe: "Piper, could you get here? Your boys are starting to fight again."

Piper arrives, she hasn't been able to control Wyatt ever since he came back home more than four years ago, and even Leo, who was closer to Wyatt, didn't succeed. It seemed that Wyatt was mad at them for leaving him. He blamed Chris as well, and was constantly taunting him, but he always protected his baby brother when his parents wanted to punish Chris for something, and Piper knew how much Wyatt loved Chris. Leo and she have decided never to mention Gideon's name around the house, and to talk about Wyatt and the cause for his behavior only when they were alone, without their kids around.

Piper: "Wyatt, would you please let your baby brother play too?"

Wyatt looked at her and nodded. He knew better than disobeying her, and Piper returned to the kitchen. Piper was worried about him. He has already killed three demons in the last two years, and although he was defending them and himself from being attacked, she wasn't sure it wouldn't affect his behavior when he grows up.

Paige came back home. She was a teacher in Magic school right now, and brought papers to grade with her.

Paige: "Hey, I'm home."

Phoebe: "Hi, sweetie, how was your day? You don't look so good."

Paige: "It was okay, but I have a lot of papers to grade."

Piper: (coming from the kitchen) "Hi, Paige, I thought I heard your voice."

Paige: "Hey, Piper, can you take Phoebe to the doctor, instead? I have so many papers to grade. Thank you."

Piper: "Sure, I'll just change my cloths before we go."

Phoebe: "Okay. Just call me when you're ready and we'll go."

A few minutes later

Piper: "Okay, kids, we are going. Paige, watch the boys for me."

Paige: "I will."

Phoebe: "Bye, boys, and please try to behave while we're gone."

Wyatt waited until his Mother took Phoebe, and Paige left to her room, before he aimed a lamp at Chris's head. Chris screamed, and Paige came running.

Paige: "Why did you do that, Wyatt? What did your brother do to you?"

Wyatt didn't care enough to answer, and he just walked to his room. Paige called Leo. He became an Elder a few years ago. The Elders have decided to promote him after the Titans' attack, and they assigned the sisters a new whitelighter, David, who was Phoebe's husband and the father of her baby.

Leo orbed home and healed Chris. He was shocked.

Leo: "This is the third time this week, Paige. I know he loves his brother, but I don't understand why he is hurting him. Did he even tell you why he did it this time?"

Paige: "No, he didn't. Look, Leo, I don't know if punishing him will help. He is really mad at us and I think he's doing this because he is trying to get more attention towards himself."

Leo nodded.

Leo: "I am going to try talking to him. I hope he would just open up to me and tell me what he feels and what can we do to make him feel better about himself. Unless he starts expressing his feelings, I don't know how I can help him."

Chris stirred and started to cry.

Paige: "I've got him; you go and try to talk to Wyatt."

Leo climbed the stairs and knocked on Wyatt's door.

Wyatt: "Come in."

Leo opened the door and found Wyatt hiding in the corner.

Wyatt: (sobbing) "Are you going to punish me, Dad?"

Leo looked at his haunted little boy and felt that he couldn't stay mad at him.

Leo: "No, I don't, Wyatt. But you can't continue acting like that. He's your brother, why did you attack him?"

Wyatt snapped: "Because if it weren't for him, you would have found me long before that."

Wyatt started to cry again. Leo came closer and hugged him.

Leo: "It's not true, kid. Our lives were no life until we found you. We searched for you day and night, and we never gave up hope until we found you."

Wyatt suddenly saw Chris watching them, with tears in his eyes. He wanted to talk to him, and ask for his forgiveness, but Chris left to his room as soon as he saw Wyatt watching him.

The present

Tears started falling from Wyatt's eyes. He wiped them and got up quickly and hoped Barbas didn't notice. Barbas was still pacing and watching him.

Barbas: "I am still not convinced, Wyatt. If you want to convince me to help you, you've got to do better than that. I need to know what really happened, how you became evil, and why Chris came back to the past to try to save you."

Wyatt nodded.

Wyatt: "You will. I am going to tell you everything."

Wyatt's mind drifted to another memory. This time he remembered the day where a bunch of Darklighters attacked his house, when he was 8 years old.

2011

Piper: "Leo, could you come down here already? What's taking you so long?"

Leo orbed into the room in front of her.

Leo: "I'm sorry, Piper. We had an emergency, and I couldn't leave the other Elders before we worked it out."

Piper: "Okay, but you know I promised Phoebe I will take care of little Prue, while she dates Adam. It's the first guy that Phoebe liked ever since she divorced David. I can't ruin that to her. And Paige is still in the Magic school, she is working late tonight, so I can't ask her to cover for me."

Leo: "Okay, okay, I understand. But why didn't she just bring Prue to our house? I'm sure the boys would love to see their baby cousin."

Piper: "Leo, did you even listen to me last night? I told you Prue was sick. I don't want to take her out of her house until she feels better."

Leo: "Fine, I'll watch the kids while you're gone."

Leo hugged his wife, and then watched her while she took her beg, kissed her kids goodbye, and left to Phoebe's home. Then he sat down with his boys, who were watching a movie in the living room.

Leo: "What are you watching, boys?"

Wyatt: "It's just a stupid movie."

Leo noticed that they were watching a horror movie, and he didn't find that appropriate for their age, especially Chris's age.

Leo: "Well, in that case, you should probably turn the TV off and go to bad. Especially you, Chris, it's too late for a six years old kid to be awake in the middle of the week."

Chris got up and said "I'm almost seven." He was angry with his father. His mother would have let him continue watch that movie, but his father was always away and visited them only once or twice in a month, and Chris didn't want to argue with him, so he went to his room. He heard the phone rings as he was climbing the stairs, and his father picking up the phone.

Leo: "Phoebe, Hey, How was your day?"

Phoebe: (through the phone) "Fine, Leo. Listen, did Piper leave already? She hasn't arrived yet, and I'm already late. I was supposed to meet Adam 10 minutes ago."

Leo: "Yeah, she is on her way. I had an emergency and I came home late, Phoebe. It wasn't Piper's fault."

Leo suddenly heard voices upstairs, and he heard Chris cry.

Leo: "Chris, what's going on? Phoebe, I will call you later."

Wyatt joined his father and they both started looking for Chris. They found him in the attic, trying to avoid the arrows of 5 Darklighters that were aiming their arrows at Leo and Wyatt, as soon as they entered the room.

Leo: "Wyatt, orb away. I'm going to take care of Chris."

Leo ran to Chris's side, and ducked his head just in time as two arrows missed him by inches. Wyatt was mad at his father for leaving him alone and running to Chris. He wasn't about to orb away like his father told him. He wanted to stay and fight those Darklighters.

He sent an energy ball at one of those Darklighters, and he vanquished him. Leo was surprised; he didn't know that Wyatt had that power. Meanwhile, Chris telekinetically aimed one of the Darklighter's arrows back at them, and wounded another, and Leo also threw energy balls at them. A few minutes later and the remaining wounded Darklighters left the Manor.

Leo helped Chris get up, and turned to face Wyatt.

Leo: "I didn't know you had that power? When did you learn to create energy balls?"

Wyatt: (smirking) "You don't know anything about me, Dad, so what makes you think you know about my powers?"

Leo: (angry) "Wyatt, I'm warning you, don't talk to me that way."

Chris was standing there, looking at them. Wyatt has always been disrespectful towards his parents, ever since he remembered him. Chris heard his parents talk about a month ago about someone that hurt Wyatt around the time he was born, but they were talking quietly, behind a close door, and Chris didn't hear the entire conversation, but he wanted to find out.

Wyatt: "What will you do? Punish me? Chris also knows how to make those energy balls. We've both learnt that ages ago. I taught him."

Leo: (turning to face Chris) "Is it true? Have you been keeping a secret from me all this time? Does Mom know about it?"

Chris: "Yes, it's true, and Mom doesn't know either. I'm sorry, Dad."

Leo: "Well, you should be. You are both grounded. And I'm going to tell your mother exactly what happened here as soon as she gets home."

Chris: "Okay Dad. Shouldn't you call Phoebe, to let her know that everything is okay? She is probably worried."

Leo: "Yes, I should. Now, go to your rooms, both of you."

He watched them leave and then he picked up the phone and called Phoebe's house.

Leo: (to Phoebe) "Hi, I just wanted to let you know that everything is okay."

Phoebe: "What happened, Leo? We were worried sick. I canceled my date with Adam and waited with Piper to hear what's going on. I told her you would call for us if you needed us."

Leo: "A group of five Darklighters attacked the house. We handled them. Could you let me talk to Piper?"

Wyatt was hiding behind the door. He wanted to hear exactly what his father said to his mother. He was furious with his father. He hated watching his parents trying to protect Chris and assuming he could take care for himself. It reminded him the days he spent hiding from Gideon, and waiting for his parents to rescue him. And besides, Chris was more powerful that they thought, and he hated how they treated him.

Piper: "What's going on, Leo?"

Leo: "I've already told Phoebe, Darklighters attacked the house."

Piper: "But why? Who sent them? It must be someone who knew we'll be out of the house."

Leo: "I don't know, Piper. We'll talk about that when you get home. Right now we have other things to worry about. Wyatt threw energy balls at the Darklighters, and apparently Chris also knows how to create energy balls. Did you know that?"

Piper: (thinking) "No, I didn't. They are getting stronger, Leo. I'm not sure if we were right in deciding not to bind their powers until they are older."

Leo: "Well, it's too late for binding their powers now. Are you coming home now?"

Piper: "Yes, I am."

Leo: "Good, we'll continue this conversation when you get home."

Wyatt went back to his room before his father put down the phone. He heard them discuss about binding his powers, and he hoped they wouldn't do that…

TBC