Same SPOILER WARNING as last Chapter

CHAPTER TWO

Chris was lying in his room reading when he heard a thud from the attic above him. His Father was downstairs getting dinner ready, and had obviously not heard anything because he could still hear music coming from the kitchen. He knew Wyatt liked to read quietly in the attic on a Sunday evening, and presumed that he had probably just dropped something, but he thought he'd better investigate, just in case.

Chris cautiously opened the door to the attic and called, "Wyatt? Was that you making that noise?" As it was getting quite late in the evening, the attic was very dark, and it took a few seconds for Chris to allow his eyes to adjust before he saw Wyatt's unconscious body lying on the floor over near the couch. "Wyatt!" Chris called, alarmed as he ran over to him. The first thing he did was check Wyatt's neck for a pulse, and was very relieved to find one. "Thank God!" He said to himself. "Wyatt. Wyatt, can you hear me?" Chris asked his older brother, while gently slapping his cheeks with his hands.

Wyatt started to groan, and move, but his eyes remained closed.

"I'll get Dad, okay, just…..wait here." Chris said to him, and then realised how stupid that sounded before he orbed down to the kitchen.

Chris materialized in the kitchen a few seconds later.

"Chris, you know you're not allowed to orb, unless it's an emergency!" Leo started to chastise his son, but Chris' frantic voice interrupted him.

"Dad, Wyatt's unconscious in the attic – I just found him." He blurted out.

"What? What happened to him, is he okay?" Leo asked, but before Chris could answer, he just ran to his Father and put his hand on his shoulder and orbed them both immediately to the attic.

"Wyatt!" Leo shouted as he ran to older son's side, after he and Chris arrived in the attic in a cloud of orbs. Wyatt had slipped back into unconsciousness, but once again started to slowly move and groan as he attempted to wake up with the noise of his Father's voice calling him.

Leo quickly checked him over, "he doesn't appear to have any injuries," he said to Chris. "Wyatt, Wyatt can you hear me?"

Wyatt slowly opened his eyes and after taking a little while to focus he found himself looking up at his Father and Brother. "Dad, Chris, how long have I been here?" He asked them as he tried to sit up.

"We don't know," Leo answered, as he helped his son sit up. "Chris found you about ten minutes ago. What happened?"

Wyatt sighed. Heavily. "That, Dad, is a long story!" He finally answered.

"Well, we're listening." Leo told him.

"Do you mind if Chris orbs us all downstairs? I'd be a lot more comfortable in the Sitting Room, and maybe having some of that dinner I can smell cooking."

"Chris has already orbed twice, I don't know if we should push our luck. Zankou might still be monitoring your magic." Leo cautioned.

"We're only orbing Dad, and Wyatt doesn't look strong enough to walk yet." Chris reasoned.

"I'm still feeling really woozy, I don't even think I could orb myself." Wyatt stated.

"Okay, fine." Leo agreed, and within seconds they were all in the Sitting Room. "Dinner's not quite ready yet, so how about you tell us what's going on." He asked Wyatt.

"I've got so much going on in my head at the moment, you'll have to forgive me if this doesn't come out right, but I'm just going to start telling you what's happened, okay?" Wyatt said looking at both Chris and Leo.

"Fine," Leo answered him.

"Go for it," Chris said.

Wyatt sighed trying to work out where to begin. "Dad, do you remember when you summoned me from the future when I was a child? Something to do with me talking to an imaginery friend that turned out to be a demon."

"Yes, of course I remember that. But how do you know about it, we never told you?" Leo asked him.

"Because, I've just now returned from that little visit to the past." Wyatt told them.

"You went to the past?" Chris asked him. "And you saw Mum?"

"Yes, I saw Mum," Wyatt said more quietly.

"I suppose you are about the age when we summoned you." Leo conceded. "To be honest, I haven't thought about that in years – we've had so many other things to worry about."

"Why didn't you summon me too?" Chris asked Leo. "I would have loved to have met Mum, and Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige."

"Because time travel is dangerous Chris, and we were concerned about Wyatt and needed him there to sort something out. We didn't want to risk both of you. As it turned out things didn't go quite as planned." Leo said remembering what had happened.

"No, they didn't." Wyatt agreed. "But it all worked out in the end though."

"Thank God!" Leo agreed.

"Why, what happened?" Chris asked, very curious.

"I was turned evil by this demon." Wyatt started to explain.

"You, evil?" Chris exclaimed, very surprised. "Ha, that's a laugh, I can't imagine you being evil, Wyatt, you're the most passive person I know."

"Everyone has a dark side Chris." Wyatt said sheepishly. "Anyway, Mum and Dad saved me and that was that."

"So you being unconscious in the attic, was that because you'd returned from the past?" Leo asked him.

"No, Dad, I wish it was just that." Wyatt said to him. "When I arrived back, everything was fine for a moment and then all of a sudden I was hit by a new set of memories."

"New set of memories? What do you mean?" Leo asked, almost afraid to hear the answer.

"What I mean is, something has happened to change the future. This is not the future I came from. Everything is very different, and believe me I know because I now have two sets of memories floating around in my head, and it hurts like hell!" Wyatt told them.

"Wow, Wyatt, this is amazing!" Chris exclaimed.

"It's not just amazing Chris, it's tragic." Wyatt said to him and then dropped a bombshell, "In my original future, Mum, Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige were all still alive. My visit to the past has caused them all to die long before they were supposed to."