CHAPTER V: Chris' 14th Birthday

Wyatt looked at his brother's unconscious face and kissed his temples. He wished for the fifty thousand time, that things could be different. He did wish, that his brother could see the light. Just like he did, a little after Chris' fourteen birthday.

He hoped that, a little time with him, would help Chris realize that good and evil was just a charade. That the so call "big powers above" were a whole bunch of hypocrites that just took advantage of people beliefs, for their own sake, and for their own power.

As long as you think you are fighting for a cause, they can control you, convincing you, that what you do.. it's just for that cause. "For the greater good", "For the greater evil". When the truth is... they are using that control, to have power over you. To make themselves more powerful.. and the greater good and the greater evil are the same... a slogan to keep the ones in power, in power.

But Wyatt was so over-past that. He was the one in control. The one with absolute power. And he knew that if he had Chris by his side, he could make sure nothing happened to him. He would protect him from everything, and give him all the power Chris needed.

It was true, he wasn't going to try and turn Chris. But he sure hoped, Chris would turned by himself.

Or he didn't? One part of him, wanted to spare Chris of all the suffering that turning represented for him. He wanted to keep Chris' innocence. He wanted to let his baby brother, cherish the relieving thought that good and evil existed, like his mother had taught them. So he didn't have to live with the pain of knowing, that his whole family had died in vain, just like Wyatt felt every day.

So he didn't have to feel the betrayal, of the ones you were suppose to trust. The ones that claim to fight to insure the "greater good", when they were actually only fighting for their selfish possession of power.

He didn't understand why Chris didn't see it. After all.. he had been there too, when his family was annihilated. Maybe Chris hadn't been strong enough to accept the truth, and had decided to keep on living the lie, that was a lot easier. It was weird, since Chris had been always the cool headed of them two. The strongest in character, a lot more resilient than Wyatt.

But.. he guessed when the time came, to face their greatest fear... that the ones that were there to protect them, weren't really there for that, were just there to use them. And that good and evil was all a big fake. That all the people they loved, died for an otiose cause.. and that the ones that were suppose to protect them, were the ones that kill them...Chris couldn't handle reality and blinded himself on purpose, just not to see the truth.

Wyatt's mind filled with memories of that day.

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Flashback.

-"Happy birthday, sleepy head" Said a sixteen year old Wyatt, with a huge smile.

A sleepy fourteen year old Chris walked into the kitchen. His mom, that was making some pancakes (his favorite dessert) turned her eyes from the stove, to her adorable son.

-"Good morning, sweetie, Happy birthday. Come give your mom a hug!" She said opening her arms.

-"MOM, I am too old to be giving you hugs all the time" none the less, he was walking right to her arms.

Passing beside his three year old cousin, Patty, Phoebe's daughter. That was extending her arms at him, in an effort to get picked up. At her cousin's lack of attention, she started fussing.

-"hey, he will be right with you! You need to let the world pay attention to someone else, for just two seconds, for a change" Penelope, Paige's eight year old girl, that loved her cute little cousin, but had never really gotten over the fact that she displaced her, from the throne of being the "little baby girl" in the family.

After hugging his mom, Chris picked Patty up.

-"Say, happy birthday, Chris" he told the little girl.

-"Appy earthday Kiss"

-"see.. that's how important your birthday is Kiddo, is a whole earthday" Wyatt said laughing, while he conjured a small cake with candles and all, and put a jealous Penelope on his lap, so she didn't feel like no one paid attention to her.

Both girls sang Happy Birthday enthusiastically, while Wyatt lead them. And then, blew the candles with a lot more intensity than Chris.

-"what about personal gain, Wy?" Asked his mom with a smile.

-"It wasn't personal... I made my brother happy, and the girls happy.. look at them" The girls looked like any three and eight year old girl with a cake with candles would look. "Present" he called. And Chris' present appeared in his hand in a blue/white orb, he gave it to his brother with a huge smile. "happy birthday Kiddo"

-"WYATT! Personal gain, AGAIN. And I thought we were giving him the presents during his party tonite! Can't you have a little patience for a change?"

-"Mom, when you were mixing the ingredients to make me, I guess with all the charmed and adorableness and super cute ingredients you were mixing, you forgot to put patience on the recipe. Cuz I got none. And apparently, you failed to put that ingredient on your other son too." He said while watching at Chris impatiently trying to open the present "You can keep it in mind for your third kid, though"

Piper smirked.

-"OH NOOO, I can't believe it.. Thanks Wy!! You are the best brother... EVER! Nah you are the BEST.. BEST BEST BEST ,period! " Said Chris jumping up and down of happiness.

-"I know" Wyatt smiled smugly. Delighted by his brother happiness. He had given Chris this insanely expensive pair of sneakers that he had been asking for months, and no one had gotten him, for an obvious budget reason.

-"Now I know what all those extra hours at work were for!" Piper smiled at her sons.

Chris was beyond happiness, he felt with fourteen, he was A MAN. Everybody was praying, as the did on every special occasion, a demon wouldn't come to spoil their fun. In this case, no demon did. But worst. An elder did.

Wyatt, was in the attic, hiding things for Chris' not so surprise party. When someone orbed in. He looked around to see an elder, that looked vaguely familiar, and threatening.

Wyatt's shield automatically got up.

-"Can I help you?" He said.

-"Gee Wyatt. Time goes by so different up there. You were a kid the last time I saw you, before I got "force" to stay up there. But I found my way down after fourteen long years. And now, I will finished what I started!"

-"What did you started? Why did you got "forced" up there? And more important.. Who the hell are you?"

-"hmm... One question at a time. I am Gideon, does that ring any bell? I use to see you a lot before your brother was born. I ran magic school before Paige did. I was your father's mentor."

-"And he sent you? For what? To tell me, he won't be able to attend to Chris' birthday? Tell him to spare it... we don't want him here, we don't need him" Said a hurt Wyatt.

-"No.. you don't remember me, right? The didn't even tell you why Paige took over magic school... well even better" The elder started chanting some things, to perforate Wyatt's shield.

-"What the hell are you doing? Stop it!" He said, throwing him telekinetically against the wall.

He got up, fast. Just at that moment. Chris orbed in, holding his mom's hand.

-"Wy, are you ok?.. I sensed.." He couldn't finish, Gideon threw an energy ball at Piper, she flew on the air, landing heavily and dead on the floor.

-"MOM.. DAD please" Wyatt cried in shock, his shield went down. And he stood there, looking at his inert mom, paralyzed, unable to make any move.

Gideon took advantage of this state to throw an energy ball at him.

-"Wyatt" Cried Chris.. throwing himself on top of his brother, in order to move him from the spot the energy ball was target at. He did manage to move Wyatt, but he got seriously hit in the process. "Dad.. please.. come" he could hear his brother say as he mumble himself into unconsciousness

Wyatt woke up from his trance, he lifted his shield and threw Gideon an energy ball, that he manage to tk deviate. Gideon flicked his wrist. And Patty and Penelope appeared right in front of him. He pressed an athame into Penelope's throat.

-"Comply with me, or your cousins are dead. It's for the greater good. You don't understand.. It's just too much power.. the greater good has to be served"He said.

Wyatt memory brought back imagines of him being a baby, and elders saying the same thing.. They wanted to kill him because he was too powerful. But why? He didn't understand, he was good. Shouldn't they be happy that there is such a powerful tool on good's side? The evil side is the one that should worry. Why would his own "Team" wanted to hurt him? He was no threat to them.

He was very confused. But the didn't have time to think at that point. He lowered his shield, and started walking towards Gideon.

For some insane reason, Phoebe and Paige had decided to ran up the stairs instead of orbing, and were at the attic door.

-"Athame-Gideon" Paige cried, and the athame flew from her daughter's throat to the one that was holding it. Almost stabbing Gideon, but he regain control of the athame a second too soon.. and the athame flew, inserting itself on the heart of the girl that tried to manipulate it.

-"Mom" Cried Penelope.

-"SHUT UP, BRAT! You'll be with her in a minute" Gideon said angry, while the two little girls exploded into flames in front of him.

Phoebe swallowed loudly, while she was telekinetically moved to Gideon's side.

-"I have a better leverage now. Wanna see how an elder can brake a neck with just one hand, Wyatt?"

-"Leave my nephew alone!" Said Phoebe, her eyes full of tears. Trying to kick Gideon behind him.

-"Or what? You are going to feel me to death, you WICTH?"

-"DAD, please!" Wyatt begged, crying.

-"He is not going to come, you moron. He is on my side!" Gideon said.

Wyatt couldn't control his tears, what if he was right? While his memory again, took him to the time the elders had try to kill him before. He saw himself in the underworld, roaming around, a baby. Demons tried to attack him, he blinked and the demons spontaneously combusted. Could he do that? He never remember doing that before. Well, except in this memory. But it was definitely worth the shot.

Wyatt blinked, picturing his attacker surrounded by flames, and prayed it worked

Gideon got covered in flames, and disappeared fast. He just had time to do what he had promise.. Wyatt heard Phoebe's neck snap, as her lifeless body slowly collapsed into the floor.

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Ok.. I am going to stop here, cuz I just killed an entire family, and it feels kind of creepy and sad. So I need to mourn for a while.

Just in case you were wondering for the fathers of the kids.

Paige married Kyle, the FBI agent, that wasn't after the avatars. Cuz that never happened in my story. But was still kind of doing the supernatural investigation. Whatever, they met, had the kid. Wyatt LOVED his uncle, he wanted to be an FBI agent when he grew up. Kyle got killed on the line of duty, when Penelope was five.

Phoebe married a guy that was half demon, half human. He was a very important business man, that spent 95 of his time, traveling. Wyatt didn't like this uncle at all. But he was still alive, probably working for Wyatt.

AHH and I am glad.. people weren't that eager to have Wyatt crushing Chris scalp to turn him.

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FRENCH "butt kicking" SPARKLES: Ok, you are my toughest critic in this area... I know I suck with action figures...So... I hope this action scene was believable, what do you think? It was still kind of too fast?? Its hard to have like 15 powerful people against just one, and that the one has to win. And I still kind of give me the chills to HAVE to kill them all.

Why don't I want them slamming against the walls?? It makes me sad, because Wyatt is not really that evil, so I cant bring myself to hate him. : ( but I guess that is the whole point of my story, the two sides of Wyatt. I am going more to a story you really feel, you want to SAVE Watt. I hope I am getting there. What do you feel.. do you wanna save, public Wyatt?

I guess you are right, about you reading, hoping that a miracle will happen in any minute..

PukahHey.. Barbas just sent me a memo this weekend, letting me know that he didnt want to work in my story any more, cuz he didnt get any cookie... Terrible.. how am I going to do without my cast?

Hehehe. You know, I think a couple of people told me it was too rushed, though clarifying.. I don't know.. I guess in my mind, after I got Barbas on the third chapter. It was soo obvious that he had something to do with his turning. I mean. He was helping Gideon in it's a bad bad world! So I assumed everybody got what he had done. And that was just confirming everybody suspicion. I didn't really think that you guys would buy, that Barbas in all his niceness would help Wyatt out of how cute our adorable psycho is. But yeah.. his babbling is scary.

I am glad you like the discussion and their controversial feelings, cuz yeah. It has to be a very weird situation to be in. I hope my characters do sound real though. I am going more to a story you really feel, you want to SAVE Watt. I hope I am getting there.

Wyatt loosing his temper? Hmm I donno.. we gotta see what happens.

TRUTH- AWSOME GIRL.. I loved every letter of it!

Drewfuller4eva: Thank you, I am glad you like this approach too. Yeah, I guess there are soo many different stories, when evil Wyatt is willing to torture his brother to turn him to his side. This is different. I am going more to a story you really feel, you want to SAVE wyatt. If it makes any sense. I hope you like this chappie too.

Magical Princess: Thank you very much. A toast, for many more WOWWS to come.. cheers!

teal-lover: thank you, thank you, thank you!! I hope you liked this chappie too.

I am so glad you find my characters believable, because they are in a very weird situation, and it's hard to have them feeling all that stuff and still make it compelling and believable. And I don't really like when the story doesn't make sense. I am trying to make a story were you really feel, you want to SAVE Watt! So you understand why Chris wanted to save him so badly. I hope I am getting there.

lex Hehe.. I am sorry, I was just wondering. I hope you like this chapter too. Let me know what you think. And thank you very much for reviewing.