Chapter 5

Piper Halliwell lovingly placed a kiss on the head of her youngest son. Smiling warmly she whispered to him

"Don't worry about a thing sweetheart. Your big brother's here and he's going to make sure nothing bad happens to you"

Once she was finished reassuring the boy Piper headed towards the adult version of her older son who seemed lost in thought as he stared out of the window.

"Hey, how are you holding up?"

"I'm fine!" he replied in his usual harsh tone as he pulled away from her.

Although she was hurt, she wouldn't allow her emotions to get the best of her. Taking a deep breath she continued

"I know that all of this has to be very difficult for you..."

Then without warning her he cut her off shouting "You don't know a damn thing so stop pretending that you do. You're just about as worthless now as you were in the future so why don't you be a good little mommy and GO AWAY!"

"Wyatt honey, please. I'm just trying to help" she spoke in a whisper trying desperately to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.

"I don't need or want your help. As soon as I get rid of the Elder I'm taking Chris and we're going home. By the way I would advise you and your useless part time husband not to interfere."

"How do we know that you're not going to hurt your brother?"

"You don't. Now for the last time go away!" Wiping her tears away Piper placed crystals around the attic to make sure that Chris was safe and that Wyatt went un-sensed. She then took one last agonizing look at the son who hurt her so badly, before exiting the attic to join the others.

Wyatt Halliwell looked on as his distraught mother exited the room. He didn't want to hurt her the way that he did, but looking at her was just too much for him. Besides loosing her the first time was hard enough and it was a terrible point in time in his life that he didn't want to relive. So keeping her away from him at all times and allowing her to think the worst of him was the best thing to do for both of them. Once she was out of sight the man shifted his attention to his brother.

Although he hadn't forgiven him just yet he couldn't help but feel bad about some of the things that he had put the boy through. Walking over and taking a seat in front of the boy, he spoke

"Hello Christopher"

The young man's body tensed up again as it did earlier. Seeing this slightly upset the man, but he continued holding his siblings hand anyway.

"I know that the wounds are still too fresh for you to forgive me, but then again I haven't forgiven you either. But for now I need someone to talk to about mom. You know Chris you're a lot stronger than I gave you credit for. I don't think that I would be able to look at her everyday for a year, knowing that I was going to lose her and have to deal with that pain all over again. But you did and you put yourself through this torment for me and it's a debt that I fully intend to repay as soon as I get my hands on Gideon."

Leo, Paige and Phoebe were hard at work trying to figure out a way to stop the evil Elder from accomplishing his mission. As they were going even deeper into their discussion, the sound of Piper Halliwell's cries filled the air immediately causing them to notice the woman's presences.

"Oh sweetie, what's wrong?" Phoebe asked as she made her way over to her older sister.

"Wyatt hates me. He always gets so angry when I try to talk to him. And when he actually does speak, or yell rather, he won't look at me, and I don't understand why. I mean he seems to care about Chris now, but he still hates me"

"That's it I'm going to go beat some sense into him" her husband said trying to make his was past the woman and upstairs to his unruly son.

"No Leo, don't. We don't want to make him any angrier then he already is. Just leave him alone and be grateful that he's agreed to help us with the whole Gideon situation" the youngest Halliwell sister spoke as she ushered her brother in law back into the kitchen.

"How do you expect me to sit by and watch my son verbally abuse his mother, my wife without doing anything about it?"

"No, Leo Paige is right. Wyatt has agreed to help us with Gideon in order to save Chris and that is the most important thing right now. I'll deal the whole emotional distress thing later"

"But you shouldn't have to Piper, it's not fair"

"I know but that's just the way it is for now. Anyway were you guys able to find anything?"

"Unfortunately no but I don't think we need to find a way to kill him at all. I think what we need to do is strip him of his powers somehow."

"Paige, Gideon is an Elder, their powers can't be striped"

"Actually" Leo began as he pick up one of the books "it says here that an Elder can lose his powers if we can prove that he miss used them"

"Then all we have to do is show the Elders Chris's vision quest and they'll take away his powers." Phoebe spoke with enthusiasm in her voice.

"Ok well I'll take them the information so we can put an end to this" Leo spoke as he stood up. But then a voice came from behind him

"I'm afraid I can't allow that to happen Leo. I'm so sorry for this" the person spoke. The three Halliwell sisters then watched in horror as Gideon plunged an athame into Leo's back before orbing out.