They all were in the solarium. Paige who had been healed earlier that night
now was healing the back of Chris's head where he had had a nasty looking
wound. She had to admit he really had been knocked around by evil Wyatt.
As soon as his green eyes opened she smiled down at him happily. At least one good thing had happened that day. Chris was at least safe and sound for now.
"You okay?" Piper asked her son.
"Yeah, I'm fine now. Victoria?" he asked instantly with his bright green eyes blazing as he searched the room for her.
"He took her," Phoebe told him the bad news.
Instantly to her words she felt anger, sadness, and worry flow through her veins. She knew who's emotions she felt without a doubt as she watched her nephew deal with the news. Poor Chris. Twice in one day he'd been powerless to stop the people he loved from being hurt.
"Evil Wyatt is going to get his ass kicked in when I get a hold of him," Piper threatened.
"Whatever we do we can't kill him," Phoebe reminded.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. I remember what happened with you," Piper quipped.
"So fill me in?" Paige asked, looking at her sisters.
"If we hurt or kill evil Wyatt then when Wyatt comes back he has to deal with the repercussions of our actions. Somehow we have to get his ring off of him in enough time to say the spell to bring Wyatt back and then we have to put it on Victoria to stop the curse from killing her," Piper told her youngest sister.
Paige sat down in one of the chairs in the solarium. "That's great. Can we get anymore complicated?"
"Of course, we can. We still have to scry for them to see where they are." Phoebe added.
"Damn it!" Chris cried in aggravation.
"Chris, calm down!" Paige ordered as she watched her overly emotional nephew spaz out.
"If it hadn't been for me he wouldn't have found her!" Chris told them.
"Don't blame yourself. He fooled all of us," Phoebe admitted.
"He's my brother. I should have realized. I should have known the minute I saw him!" Chris cried, angrily pacing around the room.
Piper, Paige and Phoebe shared a look of extreme worry as they watched Chris pace back and forth in anger. If it had been a secret before that Chris felt more then friendly feelings towards Victoria then his actions were blowing the ship out of the water now.
"Chris, you didn't know what happened. You saw Wyatt with your eyes not your heart," Piper told him as she tried to reassure him that he wasn't a bad brother.
She hated to admit that she hadn't known herself. She was his mother. She'd given birth to him and raised him his whole life. So why hadn't she known it wasn't her son? She should have been the one to know it first.
"Alright. Well, I'm going to go get a scrying crystal," Phoebe told them. She had to get out of the room. It was so filled with emotional charges and undercurrents that she could barely think. The attic seemed like the best place for her at the moment.
"Do we have anything of hers?" Paige asked.
"I don't know. Chris?" Piper asked her son.
He took a moment to answer. He was looking at the floor in the center of the room. There there was a dark sooty black mark from where the portal had been opened. Victoria was with him now. He had her. Chris didn't even want to know what he was putting her through.
Victoria, I will save you, he promised silently.
"Yeah, I can get something," he replied.
He quickly orbed out of the Manor to her house to get what they needed to find her. There was no time to waste and he wasn't going to waste the time that he still had.
Piper sat down on a chair beside Paige and sighed. "I don't care what anyone says it's just not healthy raising kids with magic."
"Oh, don't beat yourself up. We've got too much of that going around as it is," Paige replied.
"Paige, do you even realize what day it is?" Piper asked, resting her head on the palm of her hand.
"Uh, Friday?" Paige asked.
"No, well yeah. Besides that?" Piper asked, waving her other hand for more of an answer.
"Okay, Piper. You've lost me."
"Paige, it's Chris's high school graduation. Or well it was." Piper informed her as she saw the time on the clock.
"Oh, no. We completely forgot," Paige cried.
"Yeah, I know. Not only does my son have to save an innocent and his big brother from being possessed by an evil entity, but he also has to miss his graduation."
Paige frowned, "I can't believe we forgot something so big."
Phoebe coming into the room with the scrying crystal and map in both her hands asked, "Forgot what?"
"Chris's high school graduation," Paige reminded Phoebe.
"Oh, no! That was today? It completely blew my mind," Phoebe told them as she let the contents in her hands fall onto the table.
"It blew all of our minds. Because of this. Because he was raised magical," Piper cried.
"Oh, sweetie. I know that it sucks that he missed his graduation, but you have to look at the big picture here," Phoebe told Piper as she gave her a reassuring hug.
"Yeah, he's done so much good Piper. Think of all the innocents he's saved," Paige added, jumping on the band wagon and giving Piper a hug too.
"But at his own expense," Piper said.
"He has a will of his own, Piper." Paige replied.
"Yeah, he's had numerous chances to turn his back on magic, but he hasn't." Phoebe reminded her sister laying her head on top of Piper's.
"That's because all he knows is magic."
"Piper, sweetie. It's his destiny. But we can't live forever ignoring our destiny. That's just not who we are," Phoebe said.
Piper nodded. Maybe, she was just overreacting.
"Alright? Now, let's find Victoria before evil past life Wyatt makes a dent in this century," Paige said, getting up from the hug and setting the map up so they could start scrying.
Just as she did Chris orbed in. In his hands, he held the old teddy bear that was missing one eye that Victoria had had with her earlier when he'd told her that they had found a way to save her. He handed the bear to Paige and then looked over at his teary eyed mother confused.
"What's wrong? What happened? Victoria?" he asked, immediately going to his mother's side.
Piper laughed and waved her hand dismissively.
Phoebe patted Chris's shoulder. "She's alright, Romeo."
"Let's get this show on the road," Paige broke in as the crystal started to search the map for Victoria.
The crystal went crazy in her hand. Instead of pointing at a certain destination it went all over the map. Then, it started to slow down as it went over the U.S. When it reached the ocean in the equator half of the map it stopped. Then, it spiraled once and flung itself up away from the map and straight into the air not even showing a point on the map but in the air.
"Uh, is that good?" Paige asked.
"I dunno," Phoebe responded.
"Great. We don't have time for this. Leo!" Piper yelled up to the heavens.
Instantly, he orbed into the Manor and turned to see them all looking at him for answers. He had answers alright. They weren't going to like any of them.
"Explain this," Piper said pointing at the scrying crystal where it stood in the air.
"Wow, I haven't seen that happen in a long time," he remarked as he came over to the table that they were all hovering near.
"Okay, so what does it mean?" Piper asked, impatiently.
"Well, it means that Wyatt's past life and Victoria are in Limbo right now."
"Okay, so how do we get there?" Paige asked.
"There's no easy way to get there. It's not a safe place to be in either. " he told them.
"So you know about Wyatt?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, the Elders told me about his past self placing a spell on the ring. I was going to warn you, but it was too late."
"Well, that's just wonderful. Yay, Elders. It figures that they hold onto valuable information first and explain after," Piper complained.
"Well, I guess we should get to it," Phoebe said.
"Actually, you can't all go. It's too dangerous," Leo warned.
"Excuse me?" Paige asked completely taken off guard.
"Limbo is dangerous for living souls. It's a hard place to describe," Leo told them.
They all gave him wide eyed angry stares. He didn't doubt that they wanted to beat him up and throw him right back up to the Elders for what he was saying. Especially Chris, who had somehow fallen in love with Victoria. According to the Elders, it was a doomed romance, but he didn't want to tell his son that.
"That seems to be your theme song today," Piper remarked as she got up from her seat and stood with her sisters and son.
"Look, you can't all go up there. If you even make it there you will all be separated along the way. Believe me, you don' t want to be alone up there. Besides, Limbo isn't kind to trespassers."
"Yet Victoria and past life Wyatt are up there?" Paige asked, confused.
"That's because his ring was blessed by both a magically innate living person and a dead soul. With it he can go anywhere, do anything." Leo informed them.
"What about Victoria?" Chris asked. "She doesn't have that."
"Right now the ring is protecting both of them. Until midnight, of course. Then all bets are off."
"Why would he even take her up there?" Phoebe asked.
"Because Limbo has certain magical properties that he can link into. He can change their place of existence to whatever he wants it to be. Also, he can bring anyone dead or alive to them."
"So you think that he is trying to win her over by bringing her family back to her?" Piper asked as it all clicked into place.
"I think so."
"Well, she'll never go for that." Chris told them earnestly.
Leo frowned in answer, "There's something else about Limbo that you all don't understand."
"Well?" Phoebe asked as she tapped her foot impatiently on the tiled floor.
"The longer a person is there the more they forget about life down here."
"No way. We've got to save her like now," Chris cried intensely as he quickly went to stand in front of his father.
"It's too dangerous," Leo repeated again.
"I don't care." Chris told him as he crossed his arms over his chest in a battle of wills.
"Chris, I know you have feelings..."
"Look, dad." Chris interrupted. "Just shut up! Either you help me get to her so I can bring her and Wyatt back home safely or else you get the hell out of my way!"
Leo looked at him son and couldn't help wanting to smile. His son was so much like him in that moment. He was willing to do anything for love and his stubborn streak was showing through now more then ever as stood up to him to get his way so that he could save his brother and the girl he loved.
They had been wrong about it being Wyatt's fight. It had been Chris's fight the whole time. He was the only one that could go after the ones he loved and bring them back.
Chris wasn't going to let anyone stand in his way. He'd just found Victoria and he was going to save her. Also, that was his big brother who needed to be resurrected into the right time. He wasn't about to sit back and see what happened given time. He was actually going to do something about it.
Leo nodded at his son after a brief silence. "Fine, then. You can go, but only you."
"Thanks for seeing it my way, dad. Now, what do I have to do?" Chris asked, ready to go and kick some ass.
As soon as his green eyes opened she smiled down at him happily. At least one good thing had happened that day. Chris was at least safe and sound for now.
"You okay?" Piper asked her son.
"Yeah, I'm fine now. Victoria?" he asked instantly with his bright green eyes blazing as he searched the room for her.
"He took her," Phoebe told him the bad news.
Instantly to her words she felt anger, sadness, and worry flow through her veins. She knew who's emotions she felt without a doubt as she watched her nephew deal with the news. Poor Chris. Twice in one day he'd been powerless to stop the people he loved from being hurt.
"Evil Wyatt is going to get his ass kicked in when I get a hold of him," Piper threatened.
"Whatever we do we can't kill him," Phoebe reminded.
"Yeah, yeah. I know. I remember what happened with you," Piper quipped.
"So fill me in?" Paige asked, looking at her sisters.
"If we hurt or kill evil Wyatt then when Wyatt comes back he has to deal with the repercussions of our actions. Somehow we have to get his ring off of him in enough time to say the spell to bring Wyatt back and then we have to put it on Victoria to stop the curse from killing her," Piper told her youngest sister.
Paige sat down in one of the chairs in the solarium. "That's great. Can we get anymore complicated?"
"Of course, we can. We still have to scry for them to see where they are." Phoebe added.
"Damn it!" Chris cried in aggravation.
"Chris, calm down!" Paige ordered as she watched her overly emotional nephew spaz out.
"If it hadn't been for me he wouldn't have found her!" Chris told them.
"Don't blame yourself. He fooled all of us," Phoebe admitted.
"He's my brother. I should have realized. I should have known the minute I saw him!" Chris cried, angrily pacing around the room.
Piper, Paige and Phoebe shared a look of extreme worry as they watched Chris pace back and forth in anger. If it had been a secret before that Chris felt more then friendly feelings towards Victoria then his actions were blowing the ship out of the water now.
"Chris, you didn't know what happened. You saw Wyatt with your eyes not your heart," Piper told him as she tried to reassure him that he wasn't a bad brother.
She hated to admit that she hadn't known herself. She was his mother. She'd given birth to him and raised him his whole life. So why hadn't she known it wasn't her son? She should have been the one to know it first.
"Alright. Well, I'm going to go get a scrying crystal," Phoebe told them. She had to get out of the room. It was so filled with emotional charges and undercurrents that she could barely think. The attic seemed like the best place for her at the moment.
"Do we have anything of hers?" Paige asked.
"I don't know. Chris?" Piper asked her son.
He took a moment to answer. He was looking at the floor in the center of the room. There there was a dark sooty black mark from where the portal had been opened. Victoria was with him now. He had her. Chris didn't even want to know what he was putting her through.
Victoria, I will save you, he promised silently.
"Yeah, I can get something," he replied.
He quickly orbed out of the Manor to her house to get what they needed to find her. There was no time to waste and he wasn't going to waste the time that he still had.
Piper sat down on a chair beside Paige and sighed. "I don't care what anyone says it's just not healthy raising kids with magic."
"Oh, don't beat yourself up. We've got too much of that going around as it is," Paige replied.
"Paige, do you even realize what day it is?" Piper asked, resting her head on the palm of her hand.
"Uh, Friday?" Paige asked.
"No, well yeah. Besides that?" Piper asked, waving her other hand for more of an answer.
"Okay, Piper. You've lost me."
"Paige, it's Chris's high school graduation. Or well it was." Piper informed her as she saw the time on the clock.
"Oh, no. We completely forgot," Paige cried.
"Yeah, I know. Not only does my son have to save an innocent and his big brother from being possessed by an evil entity, but he also has to miss his graduation."
Paige frowned, "I can't believe we forgot something so big."
Phoebe coming into the room with the scrying crystal and map in both her hands asked, "Forgot what?"
"Chris's high school graduation," Paige reminded Phoebe.
"Oh, no! That was today? It completely blew my mind," Phoebe told them as she let the contents in her hands fall onto the table.
"It blew all of our minds. Because of this. Because he was raised magical," Piper cried.
"Oh, sweetie. I know that it sucks that he missed his graduation, but you have to look at the big picture here," Phoebe told Piper as she gave her a reassuring hug.
"Yeah, he's done so much good Piper. Think of all the innocents he's saved," Paige added, jumping on the band wagon and giving Piper a hug too.
"But at his own expense," Piper said.
"He has a will of his own, Piper." Paige replied.
"Yeah, he's had numerous chances to turn his back on magic, but he hasn't." Phoebe reminded her sister laying her head on top of Piper's.
"That's because all he knows is magic."
"Piper, sweetie. It's his destiny. But we can't live forever ignoring our destiny. That's just not who we are," Phoebe said.
Piper nodded. Maybe, she was just overreacting.
"Alright? Now, let's find Victoria before evil past life Wyatt makes a dent in this century," Paige said, getting up from the hug and setting the map up so they could start scrying.
Just as she did Chris orbed in. In his hands, he held the old teddy bear that was missing one eye that Victoria had had with her earlier when he'd told her that they had found a way to save her. He handed the bear to Paige and then looked over at his teary eyed mother confused.
"What's wrong? What happened? Victoria?" he asked, immediately going to his mother's side.
Piper laughed and waved her hand dismissively.
Phoebe patted Chris's shoulder. "She's alright, Romeo."
"Let's get this show on the road," Paige broke in as the crystal started to search the map for Victoria.
The crystal went crazy in her hand. Instead of pointing at a certain destination it went all over the map. Then, it started to slow down as it went over the U.S. When it reached the ocean in the equator half of the map it stopped. Then, it spiraled once and flung itself up away from the map and straight into the air not even showing a point on the map but in the air.
"Uh, is that good?" Paige asked.
"I dunno," Phoebe responded.
"Great. We don't have time for this. Leo!" Piper yelled up to the heavens.
Instantly, he orbed into the Manor and turned to see them all looking at him for answers. He had answers alright. They weren't going to like any of them.
"Explain this," Piper said pointing at the scrying crystal where it stood in the air.
"Wow, I haven't seen that happen in a long time," he remarked as he came over to the table that they were all hovering near.
"Okay, so what does it mean?" Piper asked, impatiently.
"Well, it means that Wyatt's past life and Victoria are in Limbo right now."
"Okay, so how do we get there?" Paige asked.
"There's no easy way to get there. It's not a safe place to be in either. " he told them.
"So you know about Wyatt?" Phoebe asked.
"Yeah, the Elders told me about his past self placing a spell on the ring. I was going to warn you, but it was too late."
"Well, that's just wonderful. Yay, Elders. It figures that they hold onto valuable information first and explain after," Piper complained.
"Well, I guess we should get to it," Phoebe said.
"Actually, you can't all go. It's too dangerous," Leo warned.
"Excuse me?" Paige asked completely taken off guard.
"Limbo is dangerous for living souls. It's a hard place to describe," Leo told them.
They all gave him wide eyed angry stares. He didn't doubt that they wanted to beat him up and throw him right back up to the Elders for what he was saying. Especially Chris, who had somehow fallen in love with Victoria. According to the Elders, it was a doomed romance, but he didn't want to tell his son that.
"That seems to be your theme song today," Piper remarked as she got up from her seat and stood with her sisters and son.
"Look, you can't all go up there. If you even make it there you will all be separated along the way. Believe me, you don' t want to be alone up there. Besides, Limbo isn't kind to trespassers."
"Yet Victoria and past life Wyatt are up there?" Paige asked, confused.
"That's because his ring was blessed by both a magically innate living person and a dead soul. With it he can go anywhere, do anything." Leo informed them.
"What about Victoria?" Chris asked. "She doesn't have that."
"Right now the ring is protecting both of them. Until midnight, of course. Then all bets are off."
"Why would he even take her up there?" Phoebe asked.
"Because Limbo has certain magical properties that he can link into. He can change their place of existence to whatever he wants it to be. Also, he can bring anyone dead or alive to them."
"So you think that he is trying to win her over by bringing her family back to her?" Piper asked as it all clicked into place.
"I think so."
"Well, she'll never go for that." Chris told them earnestly.
Leo frowned in answer, "There's something else about Limbo that you all don't understand."
"Well?" Phoebe asked as she tapped her foot impatiently on the tiled floor.
"The longer a person is there the more they forget about life down here."
"No way. We've got to save her like now," Chris cried intensely as he quickly went to stand in front of his father.
"It's too dangerous," Leo repeated again.
"I don't care." Chris told him as he crossed his arms over his chest in a battle of wills.
"Chris, I know you have feelings..."
"Look, dad." Chris interrupted. "Just shut up! Either you help me get to her so I can bring her and Wyatt back home safely or else you get the hell out of my way!"
Leo looked at him son and couldn't help wanting to smile. His son was so much like him in that moment. He was willing to do anything for love and his stubborn streak was showing through now more then ever as stood up to him to get his way so that he could save his brother and the girl he loved.
They had been wrong about it being Wyatt's fight. It had been Chris's fight the whole time. He was the only one that could go after the ones he loved and bring them back.
Chris wasn't going to let anyone stand in his way. He'd just found Victoria and he was going to save her. Also, that was his big brother who needed to be resurrected into the right time. He wasn't about to sit back and see what happened given time. He was actually going to do something about it.
Leo nodded at his son after a brief silence. "Fine, then. You can go, but only you."
"Thanks for seeing it my way, dad. Now, what do I have to do?" Chris asked, ready to go and kick some ass.