Back to the Past
Chapter Seven: Double Trouble
A/N: We catch up with TCO's from 2020 here so when writing about them I put Ft. (Future) in front of their names at the start of their little bit so you won't be confused. Then we go back to the CO's from 2004 I put Pt. (Past) in front of their names. Hope it works!
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"So are we cool?" asked Wyatt.
"Yeah, of course. I'm sorry about earlier, it was just a little unexpected," said Chris. "I mean it was a little out of the blue and we usually tell each other everything and that you kept something from me was strange as well. But even with all that I did kinda over react," admitted Chris, who was feeling a little sheepish.
"Yeah, you can say that again."
"I did kind of over react," said Chris grinning. "See that is irritating, and you don't have a hangover!"
"Yeah you're right, but you did seriously over react. I mean I knew you'd be mad and all, but that was a little above and beyond. What was with that?"
"I really don't know what was going on there, so let's just drop it, ok?" said Chris, running his hand through his hair distractedly.
"Sure," said Wyatt, who despite his words was unsure of why his brother was behaving as he was about the whole thing.
"In all serious though I have to you something, no matter how clichéd it may be. Katie doesn't have an older sibling so I feel that it is my duty to tell you that if you ever cheat on her, stand her up, or hurt her in anyway, I will make your life a living hell," said Chris, with all the sincerity he could muster.
"What's scary is that I believe you," said Wyatt, shifting awkwardly in his place.
"Good. Because I mean every damn word," said Chris, unblinking.
"God intense much?" asked Wyatt, a little uncomfortable with the conversation. "And besides we haven't really talked about it, I don't know if such situations will even have to chance to arise. Plus, there is the whole problem of Elizabeth," said Wyatt.
"Holy shit you're right!" said Chris. "Dude! You have a girlfriend, that is so not cool."
"I really don't need a lecture Chris."
"Sorry, but seriously, both girls are not going to be very happy," Chris reminded him.
"Tell me about it, maybe we should just stay here until I work out what the hell I am going to do!" said Wyatt.
"Nice try, but we have work to do," said Chris.
"Where are we going?" asked Wyatt.
"To the underworld to look for mom and the aunts."
"But we tried that already and we couldn't sense them."
"I didn't say anything about sensing for them," said Chris. "I just want to try out a few leads and ideas so grab a couple of potions," he said before orbing out. With a sigh, Wyatt followed.
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"Are you sure you can't orb?" asked Ft. Piper.
"Yes, I'm sure," said Ft. Paige, angry. "I tried repeatedly for the first 24hrs before finally accepting it so I think it is about time you learned to deal with it too!"
"I was just asking."
"Yeah well it'd be nice if you stopped. I mean I get that whole tingly feeling as if I'm about to orb but then I can't. I think he's put some sort of enchantment on the cave so I can't orb out. And all you are doing is rubbing it in missy!"
"This is ridiculous," said Ft. Phoebe. "Is it just me or does it feel like we have been here longer than our other selves were?"
"I don't think it is just you," said Ft. Piper looking around. "I know it has been like 16yrs since we were here but does this place look different to you?"
"Yeah," agreed Ft. Paige. "Now that you mention it. I don't think it is the same place."
"How can that be?" asked Phoebe. "Surely we should be brought to the same place and it should take Chris and Wyatt the same amount of time to save us as before."
"I was hoping you would make that foolish mistake," came a voice from the shadows. The figure stepped forward and they saw Dermairon. "Stupid witches! You seem to have forgotten that I exist outside of time. I've been waiting for time to repeat itself when I could go back and capture you once more, knowing that you wouldn't put up too much of a fight in order not to change the timeline."
"But if you are not affected by time surely that since we vanquished you before that was it. Poof! You should be gone, removed from all the future timelines!" said Paige.
"That is true, but fortunately for me you didn't vanquish me, just banished me to another plane of existence. If it wasn't for my brother Erech, I never would have gotten out."
"Wow, remind me to write him a thank you note," said Piper, who was beginning to panic.
"Yes, for he is worthy of much thanks. Now I was able to do it all again only with better knowledge of how to cover my tracks so those annoying sons of yours wouldn't be able to find you," said Dermairon.
"Aren't you going to defend them?" Paige asked Piper.
"What would be the point Paige? For one thing, he's a demon and for another he's right. They can be annoying, they haven't rescued us yet!"
"It's the principal of it!" insisted Paige.
"Paige, I think we have bigger worries now that our principals," said Piper.
"You've got that right," said another voice. Another demon appeared and walked towards them. "The infamous Charmed Ones, we meet at last," he said.
"Ah Erech, so glad you could join us," said Dermairon. "I was just telling them that unfortunately, things weren't quite going to plan for them."
"Yes, yes congratulations," said Paige. "But what exactly makes you think that if you keep us here Wyatt and Chris aren't going to find us again and then find a way to vanquish both of your sorry asses?"
"We have put enough charms and enchantments around our location to make sure that it is practically impossible to find," said Erech. "Not to mention the hordes of demons anyone who wanted to get though would have to vanquish."
"Yes, not securing our location is one mistake that I will not make again," said Dermairon. "By keeping both you and those damn half breeds in the past, I have extracted the main sources of good from your world, giving Him plenty of time to take it over without any resistance."
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"You know, I think that Chris might be a little jealous," said Pt. Paige after hearing Piper's account of her sons' little squabble.
"Yeah, I think it's possible he has been bitten by the green demon," said Pt. Phoebe.
"You think?" asked Pt. Piper. "I mean I guess it would explain his violent reaction. But I don't know he seemed ok with it once he had clamed down."
"Boys don't tend to wear their heart on their sleeves," said Pt. Paige. "Especially when it comes to girls."
"You're right, but I don't know. Two brothers both into the same girl? It's just too. . . day time soap opera for my liking. It just doesn't seem believable," said Piper simply.
"Yeah because our lives are so believable," said Paige, gesturing to the amount of unusual herbs in their cupboards that they used for potions. "Even our love lives seem to follow the wacky pattern created by our duty as the Charmed Ones. I mean you two were both interested in Leo when you first met him!"
Phoebe grinned embarrassed. "Yeah, you have to love every time when that little fact comes up," she said, her cheeks going a little pink.
Piper smiled, "But Wyatt and Chris aren't the Charmed Ones!"
"Oh please, that means jack and you know it!" said Paige. "I'm sure that they take part in every vanquish with us. We're probably one very successful demon fighting team, always together, ridding the world of evil, one demon at a time!" she finished dramatically.
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"Behind you!"
Wyatt turned round just in time to orb out and avoid the demon that was running at him with an athame. The demon looked about him in confusion, before exploding in flames as Wyatt materialised behind him and blew him up with his hands.
"Want any help?" he asked Chris, who was busy battling the last demon.
"No, I'm good thanks," he said, ducking to avoid being punched in the face by a demon with metal fists.
"Fair enough," said Wyatt, sitting himself down on a near by rock, watching as Chris flicked his arm and sent the demon across the room. Chris had brought them about the underworld to various places, each time encountering more demons. This time they had been faced with eight. Although Wyatt thought it seemed pretty random, he had a feeling that there was method to Chris' madness.
Chris dropped to the floor and rolled away as an energy ball came at him. He kicked the demon's feet out from under him before getting up ready to fight again.
The demon produced a sword and came running at Chris. Looking around him Chris decided to take a chance. "Sword," he yelled, holding out his hand hopefully.
The stunned demon stopped in his tracks as the sword left his hand and reappeared in Chris' in a swirl of blue and white lights. "Hell yeah!" said Chris as vanquished the demon, stabbing his with his own sword.
"I knew I could do that," he said, pleased with himself.
"You did?" asked Wyatt. "You looked like you were praying to God that it worked."
"I just figured that me and Aunt Paige have the same power but because she was more in tune with her whitelighter side when she first got her power, her TK worked differently. So, I thought that if I concentrated hard enough I would be able to channel my power in the same way as she does. I'm sure that if she tried she could probably use it the way I normally do."
"You figured out all of that when you were fighting that demon?" asked Wyatt in disbelief.
"No, I've been working on that theory for a while," admitted Chris.
"Oh I see and you thought that a life and death situation was the best time to try and prove the theory?" asked Wyatt.
"I work well under pressure," said Chris. "I thought that the adrenaline rush might help fuel my power."
"Fair enough," said Wyatt. "It'll come in handy since we ran out of potion. Honestly where are all these demons coming from?"
"Uh, in case you didn't notice we are in the underworld," said Chris.
"I know but it's like they are guarding something."
"Yeah that's why I brought us here. You know the way we can sense each other and different people when we concentrate?"
"Yeah," said Wyatt, unsure of where this was going.
"Well why can't we sense evil?"
"I don't know, maybe it's just not how our power works," said Wyatt.
"Wrong, the only reason our power doesn't work like that is because it was originally only found in full whitelighters. I think our witch half allows us to use it in a different way. Like do you remember that story of how Aunt Paige had a weird feeling about the creepy house?"
"The time they were all shrunk to about ankle height?" asked Wyatt.
"Yeah, well she said it was because she felt that there was something strange about the house, like she could sense that there was something evil about it!" said Chris. "Anyway, that's what I have been doing, I've been trying to sense concentrated amounts of evil while in the underworld and every time we orb I have a feeling that we are getting closer to something!"
"This is the sort of stuff you work on when I'm doing homework isn't it?"
"Yeah, there is a reason I don't get the best grades. This stuff is more important, it could keep me alive. Plus, I only have one active powers plus whitelighter abilities. You have five! I have work on expanding the powers that I do have to make up for it," explained Chris.
"You have two active powers," said Wyatt. "You can move things and you have that whole invisibility thing going on for you."
"The only reason I can go invisible is because 'daddy dearest' is an elder, that's not a Wiccan power," said Chris. "Besides, I don't have full control of it yet. I'd much rather fight my way out of somewhere than sneak out. It's just not in my nature so I find it harder to control than my telekinesis."
"Suppose," said Wyatt. "So you think that we are getting closer to finding mom and the aunts?"
"Yeah, I mean since we can't sense them Dermairon has obviously gone to great lengths to make sure we don't find them. He is bound to have plenty of demons guarding wherever he's keeping them just in case we say found them by accident."
"That's true. I have to say Chris, I'm glad you only have one active power because you are scary enough as it is!"
Chris grinned. "Yeah, you so don't want to piss me off," he joked. "So do you want to try the whole demon sensing thing for yourself?"
"Sure sounds fun," said Wyatt closing his eyes and concentrating. "I think there are ten demons a couple of caves away," he said after a few moments of deliberation.
"I can sense that too," said Chris.
"Wow, we are definitely getting closer," said Wyatt, impressed. "The numbers are rising. So are you ready?"
"You know me, I'm always ready," said Chris confidently.
"Then let's do this," said Wyatt as they both orbed out to the next battle.
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"This can't be good," said Ft. Phoebe, once their captors had left them.
"You don't say," said Ft. Paige sarcastically.
"Paige, I really don't think that sarcasm is going to help," said Ft. Piper.
"Well what is?" hissed Ft. Paige. "We are stuck in a cave with two demons, who have made sure that we can't escape and that no one is going to find us, leaving our world unprotected from some great and powerful dark force of evil!"
"What I don't understand is why they don't just kill us," said Piper, ignoring her sister. "I mean they have us unable to escape and without our powers. We are completely helpless! Why are they just keeping us here rather that killing us?"
"I'm sorry, but why are you complaining?" asked Paige confused.
"I'm not, trust me, I'm all for living, it just seems strange that's all," said Piper.
"That I can't argue with," said Paige.
"That makes a change."
"What I don't get is the whole 'Him' thing," said Phoebe. "Who is 'he' that is so great and powerful that Dermairon is running errands for him?"
"I'm pretty sure Him were a Scandinavian rock band," said Paige.
"Yes Paige, a Scandinavian rock band is taking over the world," said Piper.
"I really don't think that sarcasm isgoing to help Piper," said Paige mimicking her older sister's earlier words.
"God and they complain about our sibling fights," commented Chris.
The two sisters stopped bickering long enough to notice that Chris and Wyatt had orbed in and were now watching them with their arms folded and identical disapproving looks on their faces.
"Took you long enough!" said Piper.
"Do you have any idea how many demons we had to vanquish to get to you?" asked Chris.
"And we all know how much you hate doing that," said Paige, who despite her sarcastic tones was glad to see her nephews.
"Hurry up, get us out of these chains before they come back," said Phoebe eagerly.
"'They?'" asked Wyatt as he and Chris got to work on opening the locks on the chains.
"Yeah, Dermairon has a brother Erech who brought him back from another plane of existence when we vanquished him last time both of you came back from the past."
"I'm such an idiot! Dermairon exists outside of time, how could I have not figured out that it meant he should have been through all of this before?" asked Chris irritated with himself. "And about that, why didn't you tell us?"
"Oh what'd you want, a note?" asked Piper.
Chris grinned, "Looks like you never change either," he said. "Damn it! There is definitely something magical about these locks! I have yet to meet a normal lock that I can't pick!"
"Yeah, I'm not having much luck either," said Wyatt.
"I thought I heard voices!" said Dermairon appearing behind them. "Seems like I under estimated you two again. A mistake that I won't make a third time," he said throwing a fireball at them.
The two boys ducked and ran to seek cover behind a boulder. "I can't orb!" said Wyatt.
"Me neither!"
"Duh!" yelled Paige. "If I could orb don't you think I would have got us out of here by now?"
"Why aren't our powers working on him?" asked Wyatt, who was trying to freeze him.
"What you thought that it was just coincidence that no one has ever vanquished me?" asked Dermairon, an evil glint in his eye as he threw another fireball at them.
"You two need to find a way to get out of here NOW!" yelled Piper.
"I'm not leaving you!" yelled Chris and Wyatt at the same time.
"I swear to god that if you two don't get your asses out of here right now you are so grounded!" she threatened. "You can't save us when you are scorch marks," she reminded them.
As the fireballs got more frequent and more accurate, Wyatt was forced to put up his protective shield to surround them both.
"Chris, I can't hold this for long," he said.
"I know, I know, I'm working on it," said Chris, deep in concentration.
"Chris!" yelled Wyatt gritting his teeth, his force field weakening with every fireball it deflected.
"Got it!" yelled Chris, jumping up and grabbing his brother's hand as he said the spell he had been working on.
"We are trapped down below,
Cornered by a demon with nowhere to go.
So take us above and take us back,
To where we were before the attack!"
Wyatt gave out a yell as his force field disappeared, unable to maintain it as a fireball came hurtling towards them.
The demon scowled as his fireball hit the wall, narrowly missing the white lights that the two boys had disappeared in. Piper and the girls gave a sigh of relief.
"I hate those God damn half breeds!" he yelled angrily kicking rocks on the ground. "They always foil my plans!"
"That'd be my boys," said Piper defiantly.
Dermairon walked over to her with his hand around her throat. "I'm going to make sure that they watch as He kills you," he hissed at them. "Before I kill them, slowly. And don't you worry, I will."
Piper spat on his face. "I'd like to see you try," she said. "They are going to make you wish that your brother had left you to rot on that other plane."
Furious, Dermairon grabbed her and banged her head off the wall, knocking her unconscious. "That'll teach you witches," he said before storming out as Paige and Phoebe both tried uselessly pulling at their chains, trying to get over to their sister.
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A/N: I'm glad you all appreciated the humour in the last chapter, I wasn't sure whether or not other people would actually find it funny so I'm glad you did! Slightly different tone to this chapter so I hope you still liked it.
Dannyblue: Glad you enjoyed it.
Crimson Amber: Sorry it took a while, chapters that have plot are hard to write, lol.
NoAlias: Look action! is that what you had in mind? More in the next couple of chapters!
Rafiki: Hope you managed to reattach your head alright, lol. Sorry and I hope I didn't make you too impatient.
Mabel: Thanks
BuffSpike: Quite the compliment so thanks.
Flephanie: I just assumed that everyone liked chocolate chips! But what do you mean 'for now?' (Frantically hires more armed guards.) but don't worry mindless rambling is one of my own personal qualities as well so I don't mind when people ramble at me in fact I positively enjoy it!
Queen Isa: Good to know, I love it when I make people's day, yay for me! But NO! Chris is certainly not gay? What on earth made you say that? I was considering Bianca being a character in a possible sequel that is being dreamed up in my head. It's not a definite thing though, it depends if I manage to ever complete one story!
Kata Malfoy: Why exactly is it a pity?
Michael: Thanks. I did. See.
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Angel Black: Will try. Demon fighting seems to bring out the witty remarks so plenty coming up.
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