Willow2 /Stoney Angel (you confused me for a minute) its a disastor if I've made you hate Leo - so I am torturing him some more in the hope it softens your heart, I hope you feel guilty at his pain.

Calen, I am glad that you're still reading, I thought I'd lost you, I'm not saying if he's evil or not (or even mad) that's your choice.

PiperLeoEternally thanks a lot for the kind review, it makes a difference

They were stood on one of the broken girders at the top of Golden Gate Bridge.

Graden read the note out loud, again "Golden Gate Bridge, Sunrise". He paused before asking Leo for the umpteenth time "Of course, it could be a trap, what do you think?".

Leo sighed, inwardly he contemplated throwing Graden off the bridge, he almost certainly would have to if Graden went on to state, again, that they should have consulted the other elders. Leo just wished he would leave him alone. In his mind he saw the dieing leprechaun's expression of agony.

Tiathon suddenly materialised

"You." Graden backed away, terrified, he had been right it was a trap.

"Hello Elder" the panic on Graden's face amused him "Don't worry, you are quite safe. I've been waiting too long for this meeting to throw it away for a moments pleasure"

Leo looked around, "Where's Wyatt?"

Tiathon shrugged "Who knows, not here anyway. That's why I picked this spot, it's the one place he never comes, never sends probes"

Graden recovered himself slightly "Why not?"

"Because I come here" Leo added slowly looking to Tiathon who nodded in confirmation.

Graden was a little ashamed of his earlier outburst and tried to cover it by asking brusquely "What do you want?"

"The same as you. An end to Wyatt. For things to go back as they were, the natural order of things Good verses Evil".

Graden was confused "But you're his second in command".

"Its better than being dead. In Wyatt's new world order, being with him or being dead are pretty much the only alternatives you've got".

"That doesn't explain why you need us" Graden was becoming irritated

Tiathon grinned "Oh I don't need you" indicating both of them "I just need him," He pointed to Leo.

"Do you know how long I have been waiting for this meeting, hanging about this bridge on the off chance you would show up. Issuing invitation after invitation to the elders in the hope I might meet you. Not sure even if I did that you would help me. Then when I saw you yesterday, saw your face after the leprechaun attack. I knew."

"Knew what?" Leo was defensive.

"Knew that you wanted him dead as much as me."

Graden had had enough "That's all very well, but even if our goals are the same he is invincible."

Tiathon smiled and looked at Leo "Not quite"

Graden followed his gaze to Leo's face and was shocked to see understanding there. "You know how to vanquish him? All this time, all this destruction and you knew how to vanquish him all along?" Graden was incredulous.

Leo looked away, "No. Not really, not now anyway. It's a, was a Power of Three thing and they are all dea.."

Tiathon interrupted, "that doesn't have to matter. I've seen the potion in the Book of Shadows, it needs blood from his family, both sides, and to be blessed by the Power of Three, it doesn't specify that they need to be living, see" He gave Leo a sheet of paper

Leo looked down at it, trying to buy time "Is this all you've got, because you might as well give up now. There is no way the girls would even listen to you"

"No I realise that, but they would listen to you"

Leo backed away "You're crazy, even I couldn't get Piper to agree to this!"

Tiathon followed him eagerly "She doesn't need to, by my calculation there are three other sisters".

"..but," Leo, conscious of Graden's eye on him was running out of excuses " but even if they would, and they wouldn't, they don't have bodies, don't have blood"

Graden joined the discussion for the first time. "Now that's not strictly true is it Leo, or rather it certainly isn't a problem that you haven't overcome before" He paused for a second till he was sure that Leo fully understood his meaning.

Now, fully in control, he turned to Tiathon, smiling for the first time that day "We will be in touch"

Leo looked at the summoning circle he had created. He would do it in a minute. It had been 2 hours since he had sent Graden away, promising that he would summon the sisters and for 2 hours he had put it off. The arguments were clear. Wyatt was evil, Wyatt was the leader of evil, Wyatt bullied tortured and killed good magical beings like leprechauns, and Wyatt should be vanquished. And yet, Wyatt was his son, despite everything Leo loved him and if they did this, if he did this Piper would never, ever forgive him.

He desperately wanted to talk to Piper, but this was the one subject they could never discuss.

Graden would be back soon. He got up.

"Hear these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide."

"YAY Leo!" Phoebe as always was first, enthusiastically shouting in her baby voice, making kissing noises, trying to hug him but passing straight through. Despite himself he grinned.

"Leo, Dude" He looked up to see Paige smirking "it's about time you called a party" she winked.

And finally materialising in style, making an entrance and looking cool was Prue. "Hey Leo".

He noticed that both Paige and Prue quickly became corporeal; he wasn't surprised, even now news travelled fast between the Halliwell sisters.

Prue was the first to become aware of Piper's absence. "Not again, I thought you two had worked things out"

"And then some" Paige grinned at him suggestively. He smiled back, long since immune to his sister-in-laws' attempts to embarrass him.

Phoebe was indignant about being left out of the loop."What? When? How come no one told me?" She noticed her sisters' substance "And how come I don't know how to get a body?"

"I think that you might have been otherwise occupied" Prue's vaguely disapproving voice dripped with meaning.

"And what exactly are you implying by that?"

Leo just sat back, letting their chatter wash over him, enjoying their presence and company, feeling how much he loved them all and how happy their friendship had always made him.

Paige rolled her eyes at Leo as if to say look what I have to put up with before muttering a spell that caused Phoebe to solidify. "There you go toots"

The affable bickering stopped and they turned to him curious.

He could put it off no longer "It's not about Piper. Its, its about Wyatt". He passed Tiathon's paper to Prue. She looked up at him "Oh" and passed it to Paige, who pulled her face as she passed it to Phoebe, who in turn became suddenly very serious.

"Leo you've got to be kidding. You can't actually be considering this. He's your son, for God's sake he's Piper's son. Is that why she's not here? You want us to do this behind her back. Leo how could you, if she weren't already dead this would kill her...."

"Phoebe! Phoebe! PHEOBE!" Prue finally gets her sister's attention "Phoebe, I think he knows that. He wouldn't have called us if this wasn't the last resort" She turned to Leo "This is the last resort right?"

He nodded, taken aback at her calm acceptance. "You don't seem surprised"

Prue looked at Paige "I'm not, we were hoping that it wouldn't come to this but..."

Paige finally spoke "Do you really think we have to?"

He shrugged, "I don't know. I suppose I was hoping that you might tell me. I know if he wasn't my son I wouldn't think twice, but he is and.."

Paige said, "There's Piper"

"Yes".

All four stood there in silence thinking the unthinkable, it was Phoebe who broke it. "I can't believe it, I can't believe that we are even thinking about this" She looked angrily at her sister. "Its different for you Prue, you don't even know him but he was such a lovely kid."

Prue was impatient "And now he's the king of the underworld or whatever he is calling himself. The question is are we going to go through with it." She looked around. Phoebe glaring at the wall refusing to meet anybody's eye, Paige sat quietly looking thoughtful, and Leo sat next to her looking crushed. "Look, Its obvious we can't decide this now. We all need some time to think it through"

She walked up to Leo and hugged him, but could find no words to say, instead she gently touched his cheek before she clicked her fingers and was gone, quickly followed by Pheobe. Paige hesitated then took Leo's hand. "This isn't your fault Leo, non of it"

He looked unconvinced but said nothing

"What will you do if we go through with it"

"I don't know. Recently I've been thinking of giving it up, welcoming death and joining Piper in the afterlife but....." He doesn't need to go on, they both know that there would be no happy ever after with Piper following this betrayal. "Its not as though there is anything left for me here, not with Chris gone"

Paige tried to be encouraging "Chris will come back"

He looked at her "We, of all people, know that's not true"

She looked away "Perhaps if we'd warned him"

Leo muttered, "I did"

Paige looked back surprised "Piper said...."

"I didn't tell Piper" She was staring at him now and he knew he had to go on "it was the last time I saw him, he needed my help, he was desperate, he had to have been to have called me. It was a friend of his, a girl in his resistance group, she was badly injured and needed healing" Leo got up and walked to the wall. "I didn't notice at first, I was too busy with her wounds, but when she was healed she thanked me and I recognised her, it was Bianca"

"Oh"

"I'd spent so long trying not to think about it, then seeing her there, with him made me realise how old he was, how near it was and I thought maybe it was fate, perhaps I was wrong, maybe I'd been given this chance" He paused and looked down "I tried to tell him, he wouldn't listen, he was so angry at me he wouldn't listen to anything I said."

Paige got up and put her hand on his shoulder "It wasn't your fault. You know that we haven't been able to change any of it"

He looked at her with tears in his eyes "You don't understand, before I talked to him he hadn't even thought of time travel. It was my fault he went at all"
If you read this I'm really interested what you think about Wyatt and if that opinion has changed/is changing through out the story.