Chris gently laid Wyatt's heavy body down onto the old creaking white bed
in the attic.
Wyatt was getting worse.
There was nothing that he knew that could save his brother. His father was again up in the clouds taking his time getting information about the evil girl that had come to kill Wyatt instead of finding a way to save his own son. His mother had gone off her rocker. He knew that now. She had gone crazy and now she was putting Wyatt in danger because of it.
He grabbed a few old, dusty yellowing pillows and pressed them underneath Wyatt's limp body to prop him up. Then, he laid a discarded blanket that Wyatt had always carried around as a kid on top of him. Chris would make sure his brother was at least comfortable on the bed if he couldn't be comfortable with the disease the girl had passed into his mind.
Paige looked up at him making Wyatt comfortable. Her attention was quickly drawn away from flipping through the Book of Shadows in surprise to see them both up in the attic. Then, she looked quickly over at the girl to make sure she was still unconscious. Thankfully, she was. For how long she had no clue.
The girl was lying on the floor in front of the book with the white crystals circling her body to cage her in. Fresh bruises were slowly forming over her face from Piper's attack on her. Her pale white throat was already a deep purple bruise from her almost being strangled to death in Piper's rage.
Paige quickly moved away from the book and stalked over to Chris and Wyatt. She was definitely angry at him for bringing Wyatt up to the attic in his condition. She was going to let him have it since no one else was around for her to put her frustrations on.
"What the hell are you thinking? If she wakes up and the stones don't work.." Paige cried, as she started spazzing out on him. She waved her hand from the girl to the defenseless, ailing Wyatt and gave him a look that could kill as she did.
"Hey, it wasn't my idea!"
"So, who's brilliant idea was it?" Paige asked her hands were placed on her hips as she looked at him in irritation.
"Moms."
"What? That doesn't make any sense," Paige cried and started to pace from the bed Wyatt was lying on to the crystal cage beside the Book of Shadows.
In answer to her frustrations, Piper and Phoebe arrived at the entrance to the attic. Piper, who had been leaning against her younger sister for support, now stood straight on her own as she dislodged her arm from Phoebe's. Piper knew what Chris and Paige were thinking. They thought she was being crazy to do this. The danger it put Wyatt in was enough to make her want to change her mind, but she had made a plan in the small time that she'd been alone downstairs.
Her plan would make them think she was being ridiculous even loco. But she didn't care. She knew one thing for sure. If there was a way to bring back Wyatt from his catatonic state it would be through the girl.
She'd been thinking about his earlier. Right now it was the only plan she had come up with. The only problem with it was that it had a lot riding on the girl not being evil. Also, her plan was a bit one-sided in the way that she had planned it so that the girl would help them by saving Wyatt.
And if she didn't Piper was fully ready to just blow the girl up.
She doubted the girl would have any chance to fight her powers off when she was inside the crystals cage.
"Well, it took you long enough to come," Paige said pointedly to Phoebe.
"Hey, I couldn't just get out of a cop giving me a ticket without any repercussions." Phoebe said defending herself.
"Yeah, but you could let hell break loose here," Paige declared her eyes slitting in anger.
"Look, I didn't expect it to be this bad."
"Well then what did you expect ?" Paige laughed bitterly.
"Look this isn't my fault. I'm sorry but I couldn't just leave my car there. If I had we would have more to worry about then some evil girl," Phoebe cried.
"Hey guys, this isn't helping!" Chris yelled over them.
They both looked at him shocked at his outburst. Then they checked themselves. Phoebe nodded dropping her defenses as she looked over at Wyatt and Paige just walked back to the Book of Shadows to get as far away from her sister as she could for the moment.
"You're right it's not. Wyatt staying up here isn't the best solution to our problem either," Paige replied as she shut the Book of Shadows in frustration.
"I didn't ask for your opinion, Paige," Piper commented.
Paige stared at her with her mouth gaping open.
This was so unlike Piper to go out of her way to tell her she didn't count. She couldn't believe that Piper had just said that to her after she'd been there trying to save Wyatt right along with her.
Sure, she hadn't been the best of help being stuck underneath a pile of ice, but she had at least showed up. Phoebe had taken so long that they couldn't even try to use the power of three on the girl effectively yet Piper was all being buddy buddy with her.
Paige felt a gaping hole starting to descend over her again as she felt the past coming back. The past where she didn't have any say because she was too young and too inexperienced as a witch to have a say in anything they did. She hated that feeling. It had been years since she had felt that way and now here it was coming over her again like a tidal wave.
How could Piper be so cold to her?
Phoebe went over to Wyatt and sat on the bed beside him. She already felt horrible about being away while everything had happened. If Wyatt didn't wake up she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. He was like her own son. She had watched him grow up and helped him vanquish demon after demon. But now, she had left him completely defenseless by being so reckless.
She grabbed a cold blue washcloth laying beside the bed that Chris had orbed up for Wyatt and placed it over Wyatt's sweat ridden forehead. He was shaking now. His teeth were chattering as she piled on another blanket.
Piper went over to the Book of Shadows. "Here's the plan. We wake her up," she said, then she stopped instantly on one of the pages she was flipping through.
"That's it? Your brilliant plan is to just wake up the very angry might I say extremely powerful being?" Paige cried. "Then what do we do? Have a nice tea party, play a few games of charades, or how about a game of twister. You know since everyone just loves the game."
"Paige," Phoebe said, softly trying to calm her down.
Phoebe could feel how powerful Paige's anger was towards her. Paige felt betrayed by Phoebe not being there. Of anyone, Paige had always looked up to Phoebe. She'd been the first one to accept her into the family and she had been the first one to help her deal with Piper's conviction that Paige was ready to be a witch. She'd been there for her through almost every attack and she knew what horrible things could occur if they weren't together.
So it only made sense that Phoebe's betrayal had hurt her the most of anyone.
Phoebe wanted to make it right, but she knew nothing she did at that moment could heal the wound she had just picked open. She also felt the scarred self esteem that Piper had tore at when she'd told Paige to basically shut up. On top of everything, Phoebe felt the pride that had been broken when Paige hadn't even been able to lift a hand against the girl. All Paige's emotions piled on top of Phoebe's as she pressed the wash cloth to Wyatt's head.
From Wyatt she felt nothing. It was as if his body was living on its own and his soul had disappeared.
"No, Phoebe. You weren't here, you didn't see what she did to Wyatt, or how it affected everything. It doesn't add up as a plan, Piper. I'm sorry, but I actually do like being alive. For what its worth, I also like keeping all of my family alive with me. Thank you very much. So you can count me out of this one," Paige informed crossing her arms over her chest firmly.
"That's not all... Hold on a second. I know I was engorged in ice but when she saw you Chris what did she say?" Piper asked, finally looking up for the book as the wheels started turning in her head.
"Uh, she called me William. It was weird. She acted as if she knew me," Chris told his mother waiting for everything to start making sense, but it didn't.
"And she was pissed at Wyatt, but he doesn't know her. At least, not in this life."
"What? You lost me?" Paige said, staring at Piper as if she had gone to outer space and back.
"Well, it explains everything. She's pissed because of something he did to her in her past life. It even may be something that's still affecting her in this one." Piper explained.
"I don't know," Paige said slowly not ready to give in yet.
Phoebe nodded slowly as she looked up from where she was beside her nephew. It was all starting to make sense. "It makes perfect sense. If she's back from her past life then he wouldn't recognize her in this one."
"Uh, guys, you are really stretching your past life theory here," Chris told them as he interrupted their brainstorm.
Piper and Phoebe gave him a look and said almost in unison, "Why?"
"Because she's like evil. We should vanquish her not give her a motive for trying to kill us," he answered.
"Actually, she only wanted Wyatt. She told me that in between turning me into a pile of ice and calling me and idiot." Piper told them.
"So what do you propose we do? If this theory proves to be true?" Paige asked, slowing coming around. She had to admit it almost made a lot of sense.
"First, we wake sleeping beauty up like I said before. Then, we find out why exactly she has homicidal tendencies towards my son. If she's just evil we'll vanquish her. If not," Piper let her thought float in the air around them as they got the gist of what she was saying.
"You can't possibly say we're going to help her!" Chris cried.
"Well, why not?" Phoebe asked, "Maybe we could just prove to her he's good."
"Yeah, like that's going to work," Paige replied, rolling her eyes.
"Well, at least, she'll see he's evolved since the last time they met," Phoebe interjected, defensively.
"I'm sure that'll change everything," Paige said, sarcastically.
"Hey, I'm trying here. I mean if it's a past life we can't change the past without hurting the present. So she's out of luck there. We just really need to know the circumstances before we plan anything," Phoebe said going over to the Book of Shadows to stand beside Piper
"I wholeheartedly agree," Piper said smiling thankfully at Phoebe then she turned her attention to Paige who was still a little bit reluctant. Who was still standing away from her sisters.
"Mom, you can't help her. She tried to kill Wyatt. She's not an innocent. Plus, she electrocuted me," Chris tried.
"Chris, let's take this one step at a time. Maybe, we can get a compromise." Piper responded, looking at her son. Silently, pleading him with her brown eyes and trying to get him to understand that the girl was the only way for them to save Wyatt.
"You know what? No." he replied. "If you do this you're digging your own grave."
"Chris," Piper cried in exasperation. Like she needed to deal with Chris being difficult on top of everything that had happened that day.
"I won't be any part of it," he stated with a shake of his head and then he orbed out.
"Great. Try to help one son and lose another," Piper said looking down at the floor.
She felt so tired in that instant. She just wanted to rest, but she knew that she couldn't. She had to get Paige to help them and then she had to save her oldest son.
"He'll be back, sweetie. He's just confused." Phoebe said laying her arm over Piper's shoulders.
Phoebe looked over at Paige, "So, are you in or out on this one, Paige?" she asked.
Paige answered reluctantly, "I'm in. I guess. I sure would like to know why she's so hell bent on killing my nephew."
"Good," Piper answered holding out her hand as Paige took it with her own and gave Piper's hand a small squeeze seeing how much this had taken out of her.
"Now, let's wake sleeping beauty," Phoebe declared as they all turned to look back at the bruised girl lying on the floor unconscious.
Wyatt was getting worse.
There was nothing that he knew that could save his brother. His father was again up in the clouds taking his time getting information about the evil girl that had come to kill Wyatt instead of finding a way to save his own son. His mother had gone off her rocker. He knew that now. She had gone crazy and now she was putting Wyatt in danger because of it.
He grabbed a few old, dusty yellowing pillows and pressed them underneath Wyatt's limp body to prop him up. Then, he laid a discarded blanket that Wyatt had always carried around as a kid on top of him. Chris would make sure his brother was at least comfortable on the bed if he couldn't be comfortable with the disease the girl had passed into his mind.
Paige looked up at him making Wyatt comfortable. Her attention was quickly drawn away from flipping through the Book of Shadows in surprise to see them both up in the attic. Then, she looked quickly over at the girl to make sure she was still unconscious. Thankfully, she was. For how long she had no clue.
The girl was lying on the floor in front of the book with the white crystals circling her body to cage her in. Fresh bruises were slowly forming over her face from Piper's attack on her. Her pale white throat was already a deep purple bruise from her almost being strangled to death in Piper's rage.
Paige quickly moved away from the book and stalked over to Chris and Wyatt. She was definitely angry at him for bringing Wyatt up to the attic in his condition. She was going to let him have it since no one else was around for her to put her frustrations on.
"What the hell are you thinking? If she wakes up and the stones don't work.." Paige cried, as she started spazzing out on him. She waved her hand from the girl to the defenseless, ailing Wyatt and gave him a look that could kill as she did.
"Hey, it wasn't my idea!"
"So, who's brilliant idea was it?" Paige asked her hands were placed on her hips as she looked at him in irritation.
"Moms."
"What? That doesn't make any sense," Paige cried and started to pace from the bed Wyatt was lying on to the crystal cage beside the Book of Shadows.
In answer to her frustrations, Piper and Phoebe arrived at the entrance to the attic. Piper, who had been leaning against her younger sister for support, now stood straight on her own as she dislodged her arm from Phoebe's. Piper knew what Chris and Paige were thinking. They thought she was being crazy to do this. The danger it put Wyatt in was enough to make her want to change her mind, but she had made a plan in the small time that she'd been alone downstairs.
Her plan would make them think she was being ridiculous even loco. But she didn't care. She knew one thing for sure. If there was a way to bring back Wyatt from his catatonic state it would be through the girl.
She'd been thinking about his earlier. Right now it was the only plan she had come up with. The only problem with it was that it had a lot riding on the girl not being evil. Also, her plan was a bit one-sided in the way that she had planned it so that the girl would help them by saving Wyatt.
And if she didn't Piper was fully ready to just blow the girl up.
She doubted the girl would have any chance to fight her powers off when she was inside the crystals cage.
"Well, it took you long enough to come," Paige said pointedly to Phoebe.
"Hey, I couldn't just get out of a cop giving me a ticket without any repercussions." Phoebe said defending herself.
"Yeah, but you could let hell break loose here," Paige declared her eyes slitting in anger.
"Look, I didn't expect it to be this bad."
"Well then what did you expect ?" Paige laughed bitterly.
"Look this isn't my fault. I'm sorry but I couldn't just leave my car there. If I had we would have more to worry about then some evil girl," Phoebe cried.
"Hey guys, this isn't helping!" Chris yelled over them.
They both looked at him shocked at his outburst. Then they checked themselves. Phoebe nodded dropping her defenses as she looked over at Wyatt and Paige just walked back to the Book of Shadows to get as far away from her sister as she could for the moment.
"You're right it's not. Wyatt staying up here isn't the best solution to our problem either," Paige replied as she shut the Book of Shadows in frustration.
"I didn't ask for your opinion, Paige," Piper commented.
Paige stared at her with her mouth gaping open.
This was so unlike Piper to go out of her way to tell her she didn't count. She couldn't believe that Piper had just said that to her after she'd been there trying to save Wyatt right along with her.
Sure, she hadn't been the best of help being stuck underneath a pile of ice, but she had at least showed up. Phoebe had taken so long that they couldn't even try to use the power of three on the girl effectively yet Piper was all being buddy buddy with her.
Paige felt a gaping hole starting to descend over her again as she felt the past coming back. The past where she didn't have any say because she was too young and too inexperienced as a witch to have a say in anything they did. She hated that feeling. It had been years since she had felt that way and now here it was coming over her again like a tidal wave.
How could Piper be so cold to her?
Phoebe went over to Wyatt and sat on the bed beside him. She already felt horrible about being away while everything had happened. If Wyatt didn't wake up she wouldn't be able to forgive herself. He was like her own son. She had watched him grow up and helped him vanquish demon after demon. But now, she had left him completely defenseless by being so reckless.
She grabbed a cold blue washcloth laying beside the bed that Chris had orbed up for Wyatt and placed it over Wyatt's sweat ridden forehead. He was shaking now. His teeth were chattering as she piled on another blanket.
Piper went over to the Book of Shadows. "Here's the plan. We wake her up," she said, then she stopped instantly on one of the pages she was flipping through.
"That's it? Your brilliant plan is to just wake up the very angry might I say extremely powerful being?" Paige cried. "Then what do we do? Have a nice tea party, play a few games of charades, or how about a game of twister. You know since everyone just loves the game."
"Paige," Phoebe said, softly trying to calm her down.
Phoebe could feel how powerful Paige's anger was towards her. Paige felt betrayed by Phoebe not being there. Of anyone, Paige had always looked up to Phoebe. She'd been the first one to accept her into the family and she had been the first one to help her deal with Piper's conviction that Paige was ready to be a witch. She'd been there for her through almost every attack and she knew what horrible things could occur if they weren't together.
So it only made sense that Phoebe's betrayal had hurt her the most of anyone.
Phoebe wanted to make it right, but she knew nothing she did at that moment could heal the wound she had just picked open. She also felt the scarred self esteem that Piper had tore at when she'd told Paige to basically shut up. On top of everything, Phoebe felt the pride that had been broken when Paige hadn't even been able to lift a hand against the girl. All Paige's emotions piled on top of Phoebe's as she pressed the wash cloth to Wyatt's head.
From Wyatt she felt nothing. It was as if his body was living on its own and his soul had disappeared.
"No, Phoebe. You weren't here, you didn't see what she did to Wyatt, or how it affected everything. It doesn't add up as a plan, Piper. I'm sorry, but I actually do like being alive. For what its worth, I also like keeping all of my family alive with me. Thank you very much. So you can count me out of this one," Paige informed crossing her arms over her chest firmly.
"That's not all... Hold on a second. I know I was engorged in ice but when she saw you Chris what did she say?" Piper asked, finally looking up for the book as the wheels started turning in her head.
"Uh, she called me William. It was weird. She acted as if she knew me," Chris told his mother waiting for everything to start making sense, but it didn't.
"And she was pissed at Wyatt, but he doesn't know her. At least, not in this life."
"What? You lost me?" Paige said, staring at Piper as if she had gone to outer space and back.
"Well, it explains everything. She's pissed because of something he did to her in her past life. It even may be something that's still affecting her in this one." Piper explained.
"I don't know," Paige said slowly not ready to give in yet.
Phoebe nodded slowly as she looked up from where she was beside her nephew. It was all starting to make sense. "It makes perfect sense. If she's back from her past life then he wouldn't recognize her in this one."
"Uh, guys, you are really stretching your past life theory here," Chris told them as he interrupted their brainstorm.
Piper and Phoebe gave him a look and said almost in unison, "Why?"
"Because she's like evil. We should vanquish her not give her a motive for trying to kill us," he answered.
"Actually, she only wanted Wyatt. She told me that in between turning me into a pile of ice and calling me and idiot." Piper told them.
"So what do you propose we do? If this theory proves to be true?" Paige asked, slowing coming around. She had to admit it almost made a lot of sense.
"First, we wake sleeping beauty up like I said before. Then, we find out why exactly she has homicidal tendencies towards my son. If she's just evil we'll vanquish her. If not," Piper let her thought float in the air around them as they got the gist of what she was saying.
"You can't possibly say we're going to help her!" Chris cried.
"Well, why not?" Phoebe asked, "Maybe we could just prove to her he's good."
"Yeah, like that's going to work," Paige replied, rolling her eyes.
"Well, at least, she'll see he's evolved since the last time they met," Phoebe interjected, defensively.
"I'm sure that'll change everything," Paige said, sarcastically.
"Hey, I'm trying here. I mean if it's a past life we can't change the past without hurting the present. So she's out of luck there. We just really need to know the circumstances before we plan anything," Phoebe said going over to the Book of Shadows to stand beside Piper
"I wholeheartedly agree," Piper said smiling thankfully at Phoebe then she turned her attention to Paige who was still a little bit reluctant. Who was still standing away from her sisters.
"Mom, you can't help her. She tried to kill Wyatt. She's not an innocent. Plus, she electrocuted me," Chris tried.
"Chris, let's take this one step at a time. Maybe, we can get a compromise." Piper responded, looking at her son. Silently, pleading him with her brown eyes and trying to get him to understand that the girl was the only way for them to save Wyatt.
"You know what? No." he replied. "If you do this you're digging your own grave."
"Chris," Piper cried in exasperation. Like she needed to deal with Chris being difficult on top of everything that had happened that day.
"I won't be any part of it," he stated with a shake of his head and then he orbed out.
"Great. Try to help one son and lose another," Piper said looking down at the floor.
She felt so tired in that instant. She just wanted to rest, but she knew that she couldn't. She had to get Paige to help them and then she had to save her oldest son.
"He'll be back, sweetie. He's just confused." Phoebe said laying her arm over Piper's shoulders.
Phoebe looked over at Paige, "So, are you in or out on this one, Paige?" she asked.
Paige answered reluctantly, "I'm in. I guess. I sure would like to know why she's so hell bent on killing my nephew."
"Good," Piper answered holding out her hand as Paige took it with her own and gave Piper's hand a small squeeze seeing how much this had taken out of her.
"Now, let's wake sleeping beauty," Phoebe declared as they all turned to look back at the bruised girl lying on the floor unconscious.