Disclaimer: Here we go again...I DON'T OWN CHARMED. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW THAT I'VE BEEN STRIPPED OF WHAT PRIDE I HAVE LEFT!? Okay, maybe that was a slight over-exaggeration but hey, I want to own Drew, don't I?

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"Can't you heal him?" Victor demanded.

"My whitelighter powers haven't worked since I turned!" Wyatt cried in frustration. "Leo! LEO!"

"He's not going to come, you idiot! You locked him up!"

Wyatt stood up angrily, running towards wherever Leo was kept. Victor took the opportunity to check on Chris.

"Chris, you can open your eyes now. He's gone. I think he fell for it." Chris didn't move. "Chris, wake up," ordered Victor, a little more panicked then before. "Chris!"

"Hurry up, you damned elder!" Wyatt was shouting as two pairs of footsteps came running down the corridor. "Chris is dying!"

Leo came rushing in to find Victor attempting to shake Chris awake from numerous heavily bleeding wounds. He ran over to them and started to heal in an instant.

"What have you done?" Leo cried. "This is SICK, Wyatt. He's your brother. I can't believe you're doing this!"

"I didn't mean to kill him," Wyatt protested, "I was just trying to teach him a lesson—"

"Oh, really?" Victor shouted. "What kind of a lesson would that be? That if you get people out of your way by killing them, your life will be a land of sunshine and rainbows? Are you out of your mind? He's still just a kid, Wyatt! You can't do this to him, he has nothing to do with it—"

"He has everything to do with it, don't you see? Together we can be unstoppable—"

"Have you ever considered that that's not what Chris wants?"

"Of course it's what he wants, who wouldn't want power beyond your—"

"Stop it!" said Chris all of a sudden. "Stop yelling!"

Leo leaned into hug him but Chris orbed away first, leaving them dumbstruck and confused.

"Why would he...?" Leo said tearfully.

"Why would he orb away?" Victor finished. "Look, Leo, I may be mortal and I may not understand the first thing about magic but I know Chris inside out. He hates your guts and he came here to save you. Wyatt took Chris away in exchange for your life and he hates himself for helping you now. It's hard to explain, but trust me, I'm the one Chris comes running to when he has a bad day and I can tell that right now he wants to be alone."

"But there's a darklighter after him!" Leo cried, glaring at Wyatt.

"I didn't send a darklighter after him," said Wyatt.

"Then who did?" Leo demanded.

"Wait—this could be like the one that was after Aunt Prue," said Wyatt. "They can sense whitelighters-to-be, right? I bet that they can sense auras of good, too. It's because Chris will do a lot of good in the future," Wyatt explained with a slight wince.

"He's done enough good already," said Victor.

"I know that, he's my son," Leo retorted.

"Oh yeah? Then tell me, Leo, when's his birthday? What foods is he allergic to? What's his favorite hobby, what school does he go to, how old is he?"

"Uh...You have no right to question me, Victor, after all you did to YOUR daughters!"

"At least I kept in touch with them! I knew where they lived, what was happening in their lives, I sent birthday cards—Penny told me everything I wanted to know! You don't even care about Chris!"

"Yes I do!"

"No you don't!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP BEFORE I BRING BACK THE FREAKING DARKLIGHTERS!" Wyatt screeched, interrupting their argument. "Shit, what are you two, four years old? Shut your traps for a moment!"

"YOU want US to shut our traps?" Victor raged. "You were the one that put Chris in this situation in the first place!"

"It wasn't supposed to turn out this way," Wyatt protested. "He was supposed to join me!"

"You actually thought CHRIS would join you?" Leo screamed. "You are more than just stupid, Wyatt, that was the most idiotic thing you could possibly think of—"

"I don't need any sermons from elder-boy, thank you very much!"

"Okay, Wyatt was right, we need to calm down," said Victor. "Leo, sense for Chris."

"Right." He closed his eyes for a moment. "He's in San Francisco park, by the angel statue...there's a girl there with him."

"Uh-oh," said Wyatt. "Bianca."

"Bianca?" asked Leo.

"Uh, my assassin," Wyatt gulped.

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A/N—I'm sorry it took so long to update! I was a little busy with my other fic, A Look into the Future. I'm trying to balance the updates equally now!!