CHAPTER X: Elder's counterattack
The next day.
-"Ok, lets start preparing everything, so I can leave." Said Chris.
-"So soon? Don't you wanna stay till dinner.. I'll make Piper cook your favorite meal" Said Prue.
-"You are so generous Prue!!" he chuckle. "Come on... I need everybody to help me, so I can leave ASAP. Hmm.. what if we take the book to magic school? We'll probably have a lot more material to research in there"
-"And you also have a cute teacher you can talk to" Said Phoebe smiling. Prue and Piper looked at her, furious.
-"Can you stop it? Yeah, I like Alexia, we get along fine, we are friends. I know it's hard for you to grasp the concept that I can actually have a friend. But I do now! Deal with it"
-"How come the neurotic, smart ass, workaholic guy of the future gets to have friends and we don't? Life is so unfair" Complain Paige.
-"Oh poor little Paige" Teased Chris "You can share my friend with me. I saw you guys were having a lot of fun, making fun of me!"
-"That was fun!"
They all orbed to magic school library.
-"I'll take Wyatt and baby me to the nursery" said Chris
-"Are you kidding me? Baby you is like a day old, you are not taking him anywhere that is more than ten feet away from me" His mother snapped.
Chris walked to the nursery, slowly. He really wanted to say hi to Alexia. And he didn't understand what was the big deal. He finally found someone he liked talking to, outside his family, in the past. It was cool to have a friend. He was thinking about that. When she actually found him.
-"Chris" She smiled "Are you taking Wyatt to the nursery? What a coincidence, I am taking Alia there now"
-"Cool, let me walk you there."
-"So, how come you are dropping him here. Any problem?"
-"Nahh we are researching on the library, to find a way to get me to the future"
-"Ahh.. Cool. Well, maybe when I am done, I can go there and help you."
-"That would be awesome! The more people, the fastest I am going to get out of here"
-"And you will love to get out of here, cuz we are all so horrible to you here, that your life is a living hell, right?" She was pissed, mainly out of sadness. She liked Chris, and she barely got to know him.
-"Yeah, specially since I met this girl" He teased "So annoying. A telepath... I swear I think I am going to move to the underworld, just to escape from her, but I am scared she might ran after me, and force me to smash my head into a wall."
-"He He.. it's true that you are not fun" She answered. He smirked "So how is it treating you, the whole having a baby you around?"
-"When you and Paige are not teasing me about it, peachy!"
They had arrived to the nursery. The teacher waved at them, and they waved back. She pointed them where to leave the kids.
-"Hehe, see... Paige is a funny girl! But yet, you earned ten points for the word Peachy"
-"Cool...How many do I have to earn, for you to forgive me that I am leaving ?" He said it teasingly, as they exited the nursery.
Something in her clicked when he said that. He meant it as a joke, but she didn't care, she got serious.
-"What? You want me to tell you I don't want you to go? NO, I don't . I want you to stay, I didn't even get to know you, and that pisses me off. What is so great about this future of yours, anyways? Everything is going to be different. You won't fit in and you'll feel lost. It's just because you wanna see Bianca again, and I understand it. But Bianca is not going to be YOUR Bianca, she is going to be someone different."
Chris was looking at her sadly.
-"I am sorry, Chris. I am so sorry" She said when she realize how she was making him feel "I didn't mean to say all that. I was just ranting cuz it makes me sad that you have to leave. Everything is going to be great. I promise. I am SO SORRY! It's just that I wish I could get to know you better."
-"No, you are right. It scares me too, a lot. But I have to go back. It just makes no sense for me to stay here. And besides, I have to go to make sure everything it's fine. But that doesn't mean I really want to go, or that it doesn't scare me"
-"And here I am, instead of supporting you. And making you feel better, I am acting like a selfish bitch. Nice friend!"
-"Well. At least I know you care" He smiled at her.
-"Ok, this is my stop. I'll catch you later at the library"
-"Ok, have fun"
-"Yeap.. you too"
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-"Did you guys find anything" Said Chris re entering the library.
-"That you are pretty neurotic and nag to much, to be just one day old" Said Paige sarcastically.
-"Yeah, well I probably take after my younger aunt"
-" Be careful young man that I can ground you till you are FIVE!" She said teasingly.
-"Paige, please. Can we just focus?" Answered Chris.
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Two hours later. Alexia was taking Gideon some progress reports. She stopped abruptly at the door, since she could hear Gideon and Seymour discussing. She wasn't much into ear dropping, but the subject of the conversation interested her.
-"He is just too powerful, he needs to be sacrificed for the greater good" Said Gideon "Look what the boy said. He is going to turn evil, we can't risk it."
-"He is just a baby!" Argued Seymour
-"Yeah, but he will grow up. And he is just too powerful. That much power is bound to turn him evil. No matter what they say, no matter how much they believe they saved him! As soon as the kid leaves for the future. He will be sacrificed"
-"But sir, don't you think it's too radical?"
-"No, we have to make sure the world is not in danger. That is our job! And we have to make sure we fulfill it. Not like Leo, that is so focus on his own kids that he can't see anything beyond that. The job of an elder is to see the greater picture, not get clouded by earthly feelings"
-"But it's still Killing"
-"It's for the greater good. The greater good has to be served, and some sacrifices sometimes have to be made. The baby HAS TO DIE"
-"And what about the other elders?"
-"Some of them don't agree with me, I guess most of them are just scared to say anything since Zola is protecting Leo's posture, and you know how powerful Zola can be. That is why they don't dare to speak their minds, but I don't care. I won't chicken out, I would do what's our duty, even if I have to kill the whole Charmed family!"
Alexia got scared. I mean, there couldn't be that many babies they could be talking about. As a matter of fact, she couldn't think of anybody else but Wyatt. And they were talking about the charmed family! She focus and read Gideon's thought, just to confirm what she already knew. And she did!
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Alexia ran into the library, she was out of air, speaking was hard.
-"WYATT-GIDEON- Wyatt"
-"WHAT?" Said Paige.
-"Lets orb to the manor, I'll feel better if we speak there" Alexia
-"Why?" Asked Phoebe. But Chris had already orbed Alexia to the manor and the rest followed.
-"Well, this is hard..." she said Pacing around, she felt horrible, she knew Gideon was Leo's mentor. "I just heard a very disturbing conversation between Gideon and Seymour"
-"About what?" asked Leo, he wasn't feeling very comfortable gossiping about his mentor.
-"About Wyatt" She breathed heavily "Gideon it's planning to kill him after Chris leaves"
-"That's impossible! He is an elder, he would never do that!" an incredulous Leo was horrified.
-"I know it sounds impossible. I couldn't believe it myself. I mean... its not secret that Gideon its not my favorite elder in the whole world. But I would have never thought he could kill a child, a baby none the less. But I heard him"
-"Maybe you just heard wrong" Piper was asking more so someone would tell her, her son was safe, than actually because she was finding hard to believe Gideon could ever do that. She never really liked Gideon, but he was her husband mentor and she didn't want his husband to be upset.
-'Yeah, it's what I thought.. that is why I read their minds"
-"Are you sure?" Asked Chris, needed a last reaffirmation, to start planning how to solve the problem.
-"Do you think I will be saying this if I wasn't sure?"
-"What did he say exactly?" Ask Paige.
-"I don't remember but something like he was too powerful, and a risk and being so powerful was bound to make him evil. And since his job as an elder was to insure the greater good, he should sacrifice Wyatt to make sure the greater good was served. He said most of the other elders, didn't agree or were to scared to speak out. But that he would kill Wyatt, even if he had to kill all of you guys."
-"Oh my god, what are we going to do?" Asked Piper.
-"We are going to stop him" Said Chris with resolution
-"I am sorry, Leo" Apologize Alexia
-"Well, if what you are saying it's true. Gideon is the one that is going to be sorry!" He answered
A/N: Yeah Gideon has nothing to do with turning Wyatt evil, but since he has been bothering with wanting to kill him since like sleepy halliwell, it wouldn't make sense if I didn't do something about it.
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