Chapter 11

She was tough, but she was no match for me, the woman thought to herself as the witch lay dead at her feet. Autumn had slid her throat with ease after a rather short physical fight, after all she had learned from the best and there was no way any one could defeat her but him. She smiled at her work until she felt someone standing behind her. With lighting quick speed she threw a round house style kick in the unsuspecting person's way. When she turned around to kill the unfortunate soul she noticed who it was on the ground looking up at her. Her heart skipped a beat as she looked into a pair of eyes that she hadn't seen in a long time, her good friend Amber.

Picking herself off of the ground, Amber stared back in disbelief. This was not possible, her friend wasn't a witch, let alone on the side of evil, and a member of Wyatt's army. Then the realization set in. Even though she hadn't met Wyatt she remembered her friend talking about him quite often. You see for the first few years of her Autumn's life she lived in LA before her family moved back to San Francisco when she was six. Although she and Amber were separated once her family moved, she still visited the girl every other weekend and they always spoke on the phone that was until Wyatt started his take over. Amber was the first to speak "I can't believe you would do this, to work with evil" she said sounding as if she were stuck in a dream. "I didn't choose the side of evil, I chose the side that made the most since to me. Beside you know that you're fighting a losing battle." Seeing the look on her friends face she continued "Look, I don't want to hurt you, so you just go your way, and I'll go mine." Studying Autumn's face she responded "I don't want to hurt you either, so I'll give you a chance to join the Alliance and help us destroy Wyatt." Was she out of her mind, the woman thought to herself. Looking over to where Wyatt stood talking to Chris she replied "I heard you and Chris are an item now. So take how much you love him and multiply it by a million and you'll get how much I love Wyatt. Now, if you wouldn't turn on Chris after only knowing him for a few months, how could you even ask me to turn my back on the only man that I have ever loved?" As much as she wanted to save the world, she knew that if Chris joined his brother tomorrow, she would be right by his side, just like Autumn was for Wyatt. Putting herself in the same situation gave her great sympathy for her estranged friend. "Listen I miss you a lot, so maybe we can meet up in two days at one p.m., please I just can't do this right now" Autumn pleaded with her friend with a slight smile. Returning the smile she agreed "Ok, in two days at one p.m." At this point the girls gave each other a hug. They both began to walk away when Amber called back to the woman "Hey Autumn" causing her to turn around "I missed you too" with that she went back to the fight. Autumn was too busy watching her friend walk away to see the witch behind her forming an energy ball and hitting her in the back. But something strange happened, a blue shield went up blocking the energy ball, the witch stood there stunned and so did Autumn for a moment before hitting the witch with a fire ball. She looked down at her stomach in shock. I wonder what the hell that was all about.

"Did you think that I wouldn't find you Christopher? After all you know that if I want something badly enough I usually get it with no problem." He said ignoring his brother's ice cold stare. "Why don't you just leave us the hell alone Wyatt? You already proved that you can beat us any time you want to, why are you still here?" Slightly slapping his brother on the face Wyatt replied "Now, Now Chris, no need to get nasty. If you want to know my plan, all you had to do was ask. You see my dear brother your little friends have to die so you can find your way back to me." Chris wanted to kill him, right there, but he also knew trying something like that would be suicide. "I will never join you Wyatt, no matter what you do." "Oh really?" the older boy responded looking at something on the floor. Chris followed his brother's gaze to the lifeless form of his friend, Adam, which made him tear up. Noticing this Wyatt added "Oh I'm so sorry Chris, just think he would still be alive if you hadn't turned your back on me. In fact they would all be safe now." He finished with an evil laugh. "What the hell is wrong with you? I don't even recognize you any more! You know what, why don't you just kill me and get it over with!" the young witch shouted. He could tell this angered his brother "NOT YOU , THEM!!!" They both broke from the death stare that they were giving each other when they heard her come up behind them. "Listen Chris" she began as she put a hand on Wyatt's back. "I know this is hard for you, but you left us no choice. We tried to get you to come back home several times and you turned us down. For what, people who aren't even family? All because we tried to create a world where this blood shed wouldn't happen. You say Wyatt's evil, but he wasn't that way until you betrayed him. Sure he was killing witches, but only those who were out to hurt us, is that so bad?" Looking at the woman and shaking his head the boy responded "I thought more of you. You're actually defending him? Why?" "Because I love him and there's no way in hell that I would ever turn my back on the ones that I love" Something about the way she spoke made him feel bad, but this was a battle that they would not win, no matter how much of a traitor they thought him to be. "Sorry Autumn but that's not a good enough answer for me" Getting angry again Wyatt spoke up "Look around you Chris, there's no one left. And when I find the rest of them, they will die too, the only way for you to stop this is for you to come home" he finished as he reached out his hand to the younger Halliwell. "I don't think so" with that Chris orbed out. Before Wyatt had a chance to rant, Autumn put a finger to his lip "no, sweetie, let's go home and save this for another day" listening to his voice of reason he took her hand and headed home. Knowing that nothing was ever going to be the same again.

Once they were home for a while, they showered together and laid down on their cool satin sheets. Seeing the intensity in his eyes she rested her head on his chest and said " relax honey, we'll get him back, I'm sure of it". Still staring up at the ceiling he responded "I know we will, it's just going to be a lot harder then I thought". After that there was silence again which forced Autumn to think back to the weird shield thing. She knew Wyatt had one, but she didn't receive that power from him and given the day that they had, she was reluctant to bring it up. But it bothered her so much that she had to say something. "Honey, you know that blue shield thing that you have?" Looking down at the woman the man replied "Yeah what about it?" "Well that kind of happened to me today and I was wondering if you by any chance gave it to me some how?" "No, that was one power that I couldn't give you, I mean the only way you can have it is if….." Suddenly Wyatt shot up at looked at the woman. He looked as if he had just won the lottery, he was screaming and hugging and acting like a kid at Christmas. "Umm honey what's going on?" Wyatt just continued smiling at her and said "Nothing, Mama"