"Is it a deal?" Piper asked.
Fine," Victoria answered in agreement.
Piper nodded in her own agreement to the bargain. Paige then slowly collected the white crystals from around Victoria and put then by the Book of Shadows. Hoping the whole time, that what they were doing for the best. That it wouldn't come back and nip them in the butt later.
As she did, Wyatt who was laying on the bed across from them started coughing sporadically. The coughs seemed to overwhelm his body in tremors as he spasmed in discomfort. His face, if it were possible, was even paler then it had been before. Piper swallowed in the fear of knowing she was losing her son.
"Now, save him!" Piper commanded, pointing at her son as the urgency of the situation became evident.
Victoria walked over to the white bed and gently sat down beside him. Touching his face lightly and pushing his hair away, she looked for some goodness in him.
Phoebe almost laughed in amusement as her thoughts took a sudden turn on the situation. They almost looked like they were lovers.. doomed lovers even. Maybe, even like a modern day Romeo and Juliet.
"It's funny you know. You see him as a paragon of goodness and all I see when I look at him is death." Victoria told them softly.
"Yeah, but that was his last lifetime. He's evolved from that now." Phoebe answered.
"Trust us we know," Piper added.
Victoria looked down over him and hoped that they knew what they were talking about.
A glow of red came from her hand as she started to bring him back.
Piper watched in confusion at the red glow from Victoria's hand. Red? Why red? She'd seen whitelighters use white light to heal and she'd seen darklighters heal with black light, but she'd never seen red.
She wondered who's side Victoria could be on.
Mentally, she reminded herself to find out everything she could about her when Leo came back.
When Victoria was done she stayed beside Wyatt out of breath and holding onto the black bedpost firmly to stay sitting up.
"Whoa, are you okay?" Paige asked, confused at seeing Victoria without her strength.
"I'm fine. It just takes a lot out of me," Victoria replied, tiredly.
"Funny it takes more effort for you to do good then evil." Piper said, pointedly.
"Oh, everything takes effort." Victoria defended.
"It didn't seem that way earlier when you were like the freaking energizer bunny," Paige insisted.
"Or Terminator. He had that whole agenda to kill thing," Phoebe argued.
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's definitely more Terminator," Paige agreed.
"I get it," Victoria replied, exasperated.
Wyatt slowly opened his blue eyes.
His blue eyes started trying to focus on anything around him. His eyes slowly started to come around and gave him a fuzzy view of everything while his mind started to register his surroundings.
He didn't know what had happened, but he sure was comfy.
He looked across from him and saw a girl sitting there beside him on the bed. Her reddish- brown hair was falling in her face and her blue-violet eyes were so intense as she looked down on him. She was beautiful. He almost smiled at her.
There was something tugging on his memory, but he didn't really understand what it was as he looked at her.
He had to be in heaven. Her eyes filled his vision as he stared into them. There was something about those eyes that started his feelings to come back. It wasn't happiness for her being there with him though. It was something else. It was fear.
Instantly, he remembered everything that had just happened to him.
He looked at the girl beside him for one more second then he instinctively rolled himself right off the bed as fast as possible.
"Wyatt! It's okay," Piper cried.
"Wyatt, no!" both Paige and Phoebe yelled at the same time.
In instants, he'd thrown an energy ball straight at Victoria before any of their words could even register in his mind.
Instead, his brain was on overdrive. He had to take her out. He had to kill her before she hurt his family. He had to do it while she wasn't anticipating it and this seemed to be the best moment for that.
Victoria impatiently put her hand up and a wall of red blinding light came crashing up to absorb the energy ball. Strangely, the wall was a lot like Wyatt's defense field.
Wyatt sent another right after the first to try to break down the wall, but Piper quickly froze this one as she made her way over to him. As she went to him, Paige and Phoebe scrambled to the opposite side to pull Victoria out of the way of the other energy ball and then they stood in front of Victoria and blocked Wyatt from his target.
"No, Wyatt. Do you hear me?" Piper asked, holding his arm back from shooting another energy ball at her.
"What? But, mom. She.." he tried, completely out of the loop.
"I know what she did and now we're going to calm down and help her." Piper replied in a hard voice.
"No way!" Wyatt cried as he looked at his mother.
He couldn't believe what she was saying. He'd been out for a minute or two and now she was collaborating with the enemy. What was wrong with her? That was not at all like her.
Maybe, the girl had done something when he'd been knocked out. Like put a spell over them and since he was knocked out he was the only one to not be affected by it.
"Yes way." Piper argued.
"What is everyone under a spell? She almost killed all of us and all you have to say is to calm down and help her. Are you insane?" Wyatt cried, as he waved his hand at his two aunts protecting her.
"I just might be. But guess what? She saved you." Piper announced.
"Her? You're kidding right?" Watt laughed bitterly crossing his arms over his chest.
"No, I am so not kidding," Piper said firmly.
"Mom," he whined. Realizing she wasn't going to back down.
"Look, she thought you were someone else. She's sorry for what she did to you, alright?" Piper said, hoping that Wyatt wasn't paying attention to the snort that came from Victoria's direction.
"She's an innocent and we have to help her." Piper continued.
"Her? An innocent? Mom, she's evil!" Wyatt argued.
"Wyatt, if she was so evil she wouldn't have healed you." Piper responded.
"Healed me? What?" He cried.
He hadn't been awake for too long but even this was way too hard to believe. She had come into their house to kill them. She almost had. So, why would she change her mind all of a sudden and decide to save him?
"You were gone. Your father healed you, but you weren't here. So we all struck a deal with her. She brought you back so we have to help her." Piper told him.
"I don't get it. Where was I?" he asked.
"I can answer that one if you don't blow my head off," Victoria interrupted from the sidelines, sarcastically.
"Okay, then where?" he asked, defensively.
"The Netherworld." she offered.
"What!?! How did I get there?" He yelled.
"Well, honey. Your body was here. It was just that your soul wasn't." Piper offered the only explanation she could think up.
"How?" Wyatt asked.
"It was easy. You're shields weren't up and by just tapping into your consciousness with my power I was able to transport you there." Victoria answered, shrugging her shoulders as if it were no big deal.
"Easy?" Wyatt asked as he turned to his mother. "Mom, you just made a deal with the devil."
"Actually, my name is Victoria," Victoria announced. She couldn't help smiling at how he was reacting to everything. It wasn't at all like she had expected. Not at all like what Andrew would have done.
"Look, I don't care who you are. I just want you dead." he threatened.
"Careful what you wish for," Paige said, softly giving a slight frown and looking around.
"Huh?" Wyatt asked.
"Well, it seems you took care of that for us, sweetie. You already cursed her in your last life." Piper told him.
"Wow. Really? Cool! See, I told you she was evil." he said, confidently smiling like he was the king of the world.
"Actually, you were the evil one." Phoebe informed him.
"No I wasn't," Wyatt disagreed, sounding like an ignorant child.
"Hello, I relived it today. Yes, you were," Victoria said, vehemently.
"Mom, how could I be evil? I'm good." Wyatt asked.
"In this life you are, but I don't know about your last one, honey." Piper responded.
"That's why we need you to go back in time and see what you did. Hopefully, you can even figure out how to stop the curse from killing her again in this life." Paige explained.
"And how does this plan not seem like you made a pact with the devil?" Wyatt asked.
"Wyatt, please. She fulfilled her end of the bargain. Do this for me." Piper pleaded.
Wyatt took a moment. Then, he relented. "Fine, mom. But not with her up here."
"Okay, good. At least, we finally got that resolved." Phoebe said, clapping her hands together with a smile.
"Alright, you guys get him set up. I'll try to find something for her to wear and get her all cleaned up." Paige said, taking Victoria's arm to start her towards the doorway.
"Hey, I'll help. I can't just pass up a chance to talk with someone else who's seen their past life, now can I ?" Phoebe said, quickly going after them.
Fine," Victoria answered in agreement.
Piper nodded in her own agreement to the bargain. Paige then slowly collected the white crystals from around Victoria and put then by the Book of Shadows. Hoping the whole time, that what they were doing for the best. That it wouldn't come back and nip them in the butt later.
As she did, Wyatt who was laying on the bed across from them started coughing sporadically. The coughs seemed to overwhelm his body in tremors as he spasmed in discomfort. His face, if it were possible, was even paler then it had been before. Piper swallowed in the fear of knowing she was losing her son.
"Now, save him!" Piper commanded, pointing at her son as the urgency of the situation became evident.
Victoria walked over to the white bed and gently sat down beside him. Touching his face lightly and pushing his hair away, she looked for some goodness in him.
Phoebe almost laughed in amusement as her thoughts took a sudden turn on the situation. They almost looked like they were lovers.. doomed lovers even. Maybe, even like a modern day Romeo and Juliet.
"It's funny you know. You see him as a paragon of goodness and all I see when I look at him is death." Victoria told them softly.
"Yeah, but that was his last lifetime. He's evolved from that now." Phoebe answered.
"Trust us we know," Piper added.
Victoria looked down over him and hoped that they knew what they were talking about.
A glow of red came from her hand as she started to bring him back.
Piper watched in confusion at the red glow from Victoria's hand. Red? Why red? She'd seen whitelighters use white light to heal and she'd seen darklighters heal with black light, but she'd never seen red.
She wondered who's side Victoria could be on.
Mentally, she reminded herself to find out everything she could about her when Leo came back.
When Victoria was done she stayed beside Wyatt out of breath and holding onto the black bedpost firmly to stay sitting up.
"Whoa, are you okay?" Paige asked, confused at seeing Victoria without her strength.
"I'm fine. It just takes a lot out of me," Victoria replied, tiredly.
"Funny it takes more effort for you to do good then evil." Piper said, pointedly.
"Oh, everything takes effort." Victoria defended.
"It didn't seem that way earlier when you were like the freaking energizer bunny," Paige insisted.
"Or Terminator. He had that whole agenda to kill thing," Phoebe argued.
"Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's definitely more Terminator," Paige agreed.
"I get it," Victoria replied, exasperated.
Wyatt slowly opened his blue eyes.
His blue eyes started trying to focus on anything around him. His eyes slowly started to come around and gave him a fuzzy view of everything while his mind started to register his surroundings.
He didn't know what had happened, but he sure was comfy.
He looked across from him and saw a girl sitting there beside him on the bed. Her reddish- brown hair was falling in her face and her blue-violet eyes were so intense as she looked down on him. She was beautiful. He almost smiled at her.
There was something tugging on his memory, but he didn't really understand what it was as he looked at her.
He had to be in heaven. Her eyes filled his vision as he stared into them. There was something about those eyes that started his feelings to come back. It wasn't happiness for her being there with him though. It was something else. It was fear.
Instantly, he remembered everything that had just happened to him.
He looked at the girl beside him for one more second then he instinctively rolled himself right off the bed as fast as possible.
"Wyatt! It's okay," Piper cried.
"Wyatt, no!" both Paige and Phoebe yelled at the same time.
In instants, he'd thrown an energy ball straight at Victoria before any of their words could even register in his mind.
Instead, his brain was on overdrive. He had to take her out. He had to kill her before she hurt his family. He had to do it while she wasn't anticipating it and this seemed to be the best moment for that.
Victoria impatiently put her hand up and a wall of red blinding light came crashing up to absorb the energy ball. Strangely, the wall was a lot like Wyatt's defense field.
Wyatt sent another right after the first to try to break down the wall, but Piper quickly froze this one as she made her way over to him. As she went to him, Paige and Phoebe scrambled to the opposite side to pull Victoria out of the way of the other energy ball and then they stood in front of Victoria and blocked Wyatt from his target.
"No, Wyatt. Do you hear me?" Piper asked, holding his arm back from shooting another energy ball at her.
"What? But, mom. She.." he tried, completely out of the loop.
"I know what she did and now we're going to calm down and help her." Piper replied in a hard voice.
"No way!" Wyatt cried as he looked at his mother.
He couldn't believe what she was saying. He'd been out for a minute or two and now she was collaborating with the enemy. What was wrong with her? That was not at all like her.
Maybe, the girl had done something when he'd been knocked out. Like put a spell over them and since he was knocked out he was the only one to not be affected by it.
"Yes way." Piper argued.
"What is everyone under a spell? She almost killed all of us and all you have to say is to calm down and help her. Are you insane?" Wyatt cried, as he waved his hand at his two aunts protecting her.
"I just might be. But guess what? She saved you." Piper announced.
"Her? You're kidding right?" Watt laughed bitterly crossing his arms over his chest.
"No, I am so not kidding," Piper said firmly.
"Mom," he whined. Realizing she wasn't going to back down.
"Look, she thought you were someone else. She's sorry for what she did to you, alright?" Piper said, hoping that Wyatt wasn't paying attention to the snort that came from Victoria's direction.
"She's an innocent and we have to help her." Piper continued.
"Her? An innocent? Mom, she's evil!" Wyatt argued.
"Wyatt, if she was so evil she wouldn't have healed you." Piper responded.
"Healed me? What?" He cried.
He hadn't been awake for too long but even this was way too hard to believe. She had come into their house to kill them. She almost had. So, why would she change her mind all of a sudden and decide to save him?
"You were gone. Your father healed you, but you weren't here. So we all struck a deal with her. She brought you back so we have to help her." Piper told him.
"I don't get it. Where was I?" he asked.
"I can answer that one if you don't blow my head off," Victoria interrupted from the sidelines, sarcastically.
"Okay, then where?" he asked, defensively.
"The Netherworld." she offered.
"What!?! How did I get there?" He yelled.
"Well, honey. Your body was here. It was just that your soul wasn't." Piper offered the only explanation she could think up.
"How?" Wyatt asked.
"It was easy. You're shields weren't up and by just tapping into your consciousness with my power I was able to transport you there." Victoria answered, shrugging her shoulders as if it were no big deal.
"Easy?" Wyatt asked as he turned to his mother. "Mom, you just made a deal with the devil."
"Actually, my name is Victoria," Victoria announced. She couldn't help smiling at how he was reacting to everything. It wasn't at all like she had expected. Not at all like what Andrew would have done.
"Look, I don't care who you are. I just want you dead." he threatened.
"Careful what you wish for," Paige said, softly giving a slight frown and looking around.
"Huh?" Wyatt asked.
"Well, it seems you took care of that for us, sweetie. You already cursed her in your last life." Piper told him.
"Wow. Really? Cool! See, I told you she was evil." he said, confidently smiling like he was the king of the world.
"Actually, you were the evil one." Phoebe informed him.
"No I wasn't," Wyatt disagreed, sounding like an ignorant child.
"Hello, I relived it today. Yes, you were," Victoria said, vehemently.
"Mom, how could I be evil? I'm good." Wyatt asked.
"In this life you are, but I don't know about your last one, honey." Piper responded.
"That's why we need you to go back in time and see what you did. Hopefully, you can even figure out how to stop the curse from killing her again in this life." Paige explained.
"And how does this plan not seem like you made a pact with the devil?" Wyatt asked.
"Wyatt, please. She fulfilled her end of the bargain. Do this for me." Piper pleaded.
Wyatt took a moment. Then, he relented. "Fine, mom. But not with her up here."
"Okay, good. At least, we finally got that resolved." Phoebe said, clapping her hands together with a smile.
"Alright, you guys get him set up. I'll try to find something for her to wear and get her all cleaned up." Paige said, taking Victoria's arm to start her towards the doorway.
"Hey, I'll help. I can't just pass up a chance to talk with someone else who's seen their past life, now can I ?" Phoebe said, quickly going after them.