In the attic Wyatt was already busy scrying, but not picking anything up, Leo was sitting across from him at the table silently willing the crystal to fall.
Phoebe was sitting on the couch drumming her finger on a notepad, trying to come up with a stronger summoning spell and little Wyatt was sitting quietly at her feet.
Everyone looked up as Paige orbed in with Piper and Chris. "Get anything?" Leo asked Paige hopefully.
"Oh yeah," she answered holding up the wallet. "If this doesn't work, I don't know what will." She said confidently handing it to Wyatt.
Chris boredly watched as Wyatt swirled the crystal only to have it immediately land on the manor.
"I knew it!" Paige exclaimed. "I thought I felt him downstairs just a minute ago, he must be haunting the house." "Paigeā¦" Leo said to get her attention. "What?" She asked innocently. "That." Leo said pointing to little Chris. "Oh, right." She said sheepishly.
"Aunt Paige, could you orb mom someplace with Chris so we can try again?" Wyatt asked with a hint of a smile on his serious face. "Sure." She said quickly grabbing Piper's hand and orbing out.
Wyatt waited a beat before swinging the crystal out in a wide arc again hoping to find the house again, but instead it landed on P3. "I'm still finding little Chris." He said frustrated, running his hands through his hair.
"Here," Phoebe said crossing the attic. "Try this." She handed him a piece of paper torn from her notebook, which he quickly recited while holding the crystal in his fist.
Two like souls in one time reside
But only one we wish to find
Send this crystal to the lost one's soul
That we might restore him to whole.
The crystal glowed and Phoebe grinned. "I still got it." She laughed, but quickly grew serious again as the crystal dropped at P3. "Or not." She said sitting back down heavily.
She picked up her cell phone and called Paige back. Before Phoebe put the phone down Piper and Paige were right next to her on the couch.
"Ok, I'm ready for phase two if you are Aunt Phoebe." Wyatt tossed the crystal on the map, angry with himself for failing. He'd apparently inherited his mother's short temper.
"Wyatt, relax, we'll get him back." Leo put a fatherly hand on his son's shoulder. "Don't start blaming yourself, we have enough of that around here. You're only helping to fix this, so don't be so hard on yourself."
"Dad, do you forget who you're talking to? I turned evil and destroyed half the world. If this isn't my fault, I don't know whose it is. I nearly killed him so many times." He looked at his hands. "I killed innocents." He whispered.
"Wyatt, look at me." Leo told him sternly. "That was not you."
"Yes it was." Wyatt said so quietly Leo wasn't sure he heard him correctly. "I was giving the order to wipe out a coven of witches when in a blink I was in my old room here at the manor. The new memories hit me and knocked me out, they're the dominant set now, but I can still remember everything I did."
Despite Wyatt's confession, Chris didn't fear him or think less of him. He'd known from the beginning it wasn't Wyatt's fault, that's why he'd come back here. The guy was kidnapped and had his father's most trusted friend try to murder him. How could he be expected to believe in Good and Evil after that?
Everyone in this family has issues. He realized sadly, and then. And I'm one to talk. He decided to orb over to him, for what it was worth, but before he got the chance, he felt himself grabbed from his mother's lap by a swarm of orbs that left him in his crib once again.
Wyatt. He thought, annoyed with his older brother for being such a spoiled brat.
In the attic, little Wyatt was sitting on his mother's lap smiling happily. Piper was trying not to panic and looked to older Wyatt for help.
"Sorry." He told her. "I'll get him." And he orbed downstairs to the nursery.
Chris could see Wyatt's orb cloud materialize next to the crib and tried to glare at him. Wyatt laughed at him. "Hey, it wasn't me, technically, and don't worry, you'll more than get even with him, err, me soon enough.
Hey, I wonder if I can get him to follow me to the kitchen so I can try again with the letters. Chris started to orb out but Wyatt pulled him back.
"Hey, don't even try that, mom and dad would kill me if I lost you. Let's go back to the attic." Wyatt hoisted Chris up and over the bars of the crib as he orbed.
When they got back to the attic, Paige and Phoebe were busy setting up for the summoning spell.
"I'm using the spell that's in the book from when I was having high school flashbacks that they used to summon me, but I modified it a little to call a spirit or whatever he is."
Phoebe lit the last candle in the circle and set the lighter aside. "Okay, I think we're ready."
"Do you need me for the spell?" Wyatt asked her. "No, it's power of three." Phoebe said gesturing for her sisters to join her outside the circle.
Piper handed Little Wyatt off to Leo and apprehensively took Phoebe and Paige's hands
This might actually work. If the spell is worded right and strong enough, it could summon me out of the baby. Please let it work.
Around the circle the girls were already chanting
Out of space and out of time
Is he that we search for with this rhyme
Drawing on the Power of Three
We summon this soul of light energy.
Be he far or be he near
Bring us the spirit of Chris Halliwell here.
Chris felt a strong pulling sensation just like the one he felt when he died, but his body, the baby's body wasn't letting go of his soul as easily as his adult body had when it was nearly dead. C'mon, just a little more. He thought hopefully.
To everyone else in the room it looked like the baby's soul was being ripped from his body. Piper gasped in horror and pulled the closest candle out of the circle. The connection broken, Piper walked quickly to adult Wyatt, who handed Chris to her, and then she walked out of the attic wordlessly.
"The wording of it was fine, it should've worked." She looked to Leo. "I could try to rework it." She offered.
"No, thanks, but no, we'll find another way." He said quickly, and then left to go find Piper.
Phoebe looked at her watch. "Do you think we should start dinner?" She asked Paige. "We need to make sure Piper eats something."
"I'm game if you are." She said jokingly to cover her nervousness. Seeing her nephew's soul being torn from his body wasn't exactly what she expected to get from the spell and now the thought of trying again made her afraid for both Chris's.
Phoebe and Paige exited leaving a conflicted and upset Wyatt standing there staring after them. After a moment's hesitation, Paige reappeared in the attic doorway,
"We're nowhere near giving up, so don't worry. Once we deal with Piper and get recharged we'll be back. You just get started on the next step." She waited long enough to see his reassured smile and then ran downstairs to protect the kitchen from Phoebe
Wyatt took a deep breath to calm himself down and then resumed his seat at the table with a notebook and pencil
