Author's Note: Okay, this chapter took me a little while to write, but the rest of the chapters should come more swiftly. The beginning of this chapter starts out boring but gets better. Also, any Angel fans in the house? See if you can catch the reference I made to my second favorite show.
Now, to reply to the reviews:
Deranged black kitten of doom: Glad you like it, hmm, I dunno if Wyatt will turn evil again, you'll just have to read and find out won't you? :)
Twisted Flame: Nothing ever goes well for the Halliwells so what can you expect? I have given up on the fish game, hope your shoulder gets better.
Calen: Yep, Wyatt definitely does not have it easy, but he's a tough guy, I'm sure he can deal.
Willows2: Glad you like, dialog is what I'm good at, not too great on detail though, so you must forgive me if the setting is a little vague and stuff.
Mcgirl: I can't make any promises, you'll just have to read and see.
Pink-Charmed-One: My friend is currently sick, but as soon as he gets better I'll give him your message. Really glad you like the story.
Queen Isa: I do mention Bianca in this chapter, but only briefly and I probably won't mention her again because she is definitely not my favorite character.
Kata Malfoy: Hmm we'll just have to wait and see what happens to our beloved Chris won't we? ::laughs evily::
"Wyatt, listen to me. You are not evil, can you remember one bad thing you have done in your life time? This time, not the other one. You aren't that Wyatt and you never will be, that Wyatt was part of something that doesn't exist anymore, he's a shadow of what was, you are real and solid." Chris felt like he was repeating himself and was getting tired of it, but he knew he had to convince Wyatt.
"How can you pretend he's not real. His memories still exist, and memories are what we are, what makes us us, so I exist, I mean, he exists," said Wyatt. The memories were blending together, it was hard for him to separate them, hard for him to tell which memories belonged to who. He was loosing himself, his identity, it had become smeared and smudged and unclear. "Chris, help me," he pleaded.
"I'm trying! But you won't believe what I'm saying," Chris was fighting against the memories too. It was easier for him to keep a grip on his identity though, he had things to hold onto, Lilly and his unborn child were anchors to him, Wyatt didn't have any of that. I wonder what kind of future I would have had with Bianca, Chris thought, he had only met Bianca once, right before he vanquished her.
"I can feel him, he's fighting for control," said Wyatt quietly.
"No he's not because he doesn't exist, are you going to tell me that Wyatt, the prophesized Twice Blessed one can't beat someone who doesn't exist?" The whole time Chris was convincing Wyatt he was also convincing himself, when he said that Wyatt didn't exist he was also saying that that Chris didn't exist. But the truth was, he did, that part of him had the urge to back up or get out of the cave, it wasn't safe to be that close to Wyatt. The other Chris was the one making his heart beat a mile a minute, urging him to get out of that cave faster than now. Get a grip Halliwell, Chris scolded himself. He is not evil and he will never be evil.
"I think what you need right now is some time to think," said Chris aloud, "time away from people you are convinced that you might hurt." All the Wyatt did was nod.
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"Duck!" yelled Paige from behind the couch.
'Thanks Paige, I couldn't have figured that out myself," said Piper sarcastically. She and Phoebe had been heading up the stairs to the attack when a demon shimmered in front of them. They had hightailed it back to the living room and were currently dodging energy balls the demon was throwing.
"Where is he?" yelled the demon in a gruff voice.
"Where is who? Couple 'hes' in this house, you'll need to be more specific," said Piper, hiding behind the couch with her sisters.
"Silence witch! The Twice Blessed one."
"Oh him," said Paige, "He's not here right now but if you leave your name and number he'll get back to you as soon as possible." The demon growled and threw and energy ball at the back of the couch, sending a large amount of stuffing into the air in a large cloud. The sisters slowly stood up, with bits of stuffing stuck in their hair.
Just then Chris orbed in, he saw the stuffing in the air and the Charmed Ones covered in the fluffy white stuff, "Whoa, what happened here?"
"Piper blew up the couch," said Phoebe, trying at a hint of humor.
"Did not! It was the demon," said Piper defensively.
"Demon?" asked Chris.
"Yeah, you know the evil things hell bent on killing us every day of our lives," said Paige.
"I mean what kind of demon," said Chris glaring at Paige.
"Dunno, seemed pretty normal, threw energy balls, was immune to Piper's powers, was looking for Wyatt. We'll go check the book and see if he's in there." A demon was a welcome distraction from their current crisis at hand.
"Alright, I'll go check on Lilly," he was about to orb out but Piper stopped him.
"Hey wait, where's your brother?" she asked.
"I let him have some time alone to think," said Chris.
"Alright, go be with Lilly, we'll call you when we find out who the demon was." She Paige and Phoebe went up to the attic and after fifteen minutes of fruitless searching, Paige finally found something.
"Found him!" she announced, " 'Quortoth, an upper level demon that makes one's insecurities about themselves become a reality.'" She read.
"Huh?" asked Phoebe.
"It means if someone thinks they are too tall or too short them they become either extremely tall or extremely short, or whatever insecurities they have. So that means that Lilly and Wyatt need to stay out of the house in case the demon comes back," said Piper.
"Okay, I understand Wyatt but why Lilly?" asked Paige.
"Because the insecurity that you may not be able to carry the baby properly lurks at the back of every mother-to-be's mind, if she ever got around the demon she might end up having a miscarriage and loose the baby," said Piper.
"Okay, so any one else have any potentially dangerous insecurities they want to tell us about?" asked Paige, Piper and Phoebe didn't say anything, "Alright, there's a vanquishing potion in the book, do you want to wait for him to attack again or should we summon him?"
"I think we should wait for him to attack because he may be immune to the summoning and then he would know that we are planning something," said Piper.
"Alright potion lady, hop to it."
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Quortoth shimmered into the sea cave where Wyatt was, by ways unknown he had tracked him down. "Hello Wyatt," he said.