Chapter 7

Chris immediately stood and walked over to intruder and touched his arm trying to make sure that he was in fact real and he wasn't hallucinating. The man simply smiled in return before speaking again.

"Yes it's me Chris and no you're not dreaming" the man spoke while suppressing a laugh as he stared into his brother's shell shocked face.

That's when it happened for the first time in a long while. Chris threw his arms around his older sibling and held on tightly as if never wanting to let go just like he used to do when they were children.

"I've missed you too" an amused Wyatt laughed as he returned the embrace as his father smiled happily at the sight of his two sons.

"I can't believe it, you're really here" Chris said as he took in the sight of his more relaxed and seemingly good brother.

"Of course I'm here, my little brother needed me" Wyatt smiled widened at the gleam in his brother's green eyes.

"Wyatt" Leo finally spoke.

"Unless there's another son that you would like to tell me about, yeah, it's me Dad" the man was barely able to let out before being engulfed in a bear hug.

"Dad I rather enjoy breathing, would you mind?" he said in a classic Chris like manner.

"Oh right, sorry" the man replied as he released the boy from his grasp.

"How did you know that something was wrong with me?" Chris couldn't stop himself from questioning.

"Well when you disappeared in the middle of our weekly brotherly bonding dinner, I kind of got the impression that something was wrong. That's when I went into a full on panic and called Mom and Dad, then they filled me in on the details" his voice grew softer and his eyes moved to study the floor on the last part.

"Listen, Wy that wasn't you, it was someone else from another time line. You're good now and that's all that matters" Chris tried to ease his siblings feeling of remorse.

"Right, umm, you guys also said something about someone named Gideon and Barbus and how I needed to stop them or something" the man said trying hard to gather his thoughts.

"Well in order to cure your brother we were going to need the blood of Gideon and Barbus so we resurrected them, not knowing that you had already cured Chris, but by the time we found out we had already summoned them and while we were distracted, they were able to escape"

"I see" Wyatt replied trying to wrap his head around all the information.

"Now we have to come up with a way to trap them so that we can vanquish them, again" Chris spoke.

"Well let's see if the girls have come up with anything yet" the man said motioning for the boys to follow.

"You go a head Dad. I want to talk to Chris alone for a minute"

Leo nodded in response as made his way out of the kitchen and up the stairs, leaving the two brothers alone.

"So Wy, what did you have to talk to me about?" the boy questioned as he felt someone else enter the room.

"CHRIS!" the real Wyatt shouted from behind his brother as the fake one stabbed him in the back.

"Don't worry my dear boy, you're nex…" Gideon didn't get a chance to finish before he was reduced to a pile of ashes as Chris's body hit the floor with a sickening thud.

"Chris please, you can't leave me little brother, please don't go. I need you Chris, please stay" Wyatt spoke softly into his dead brother's hair as he held him tightly in his arms and tears fell from his eyes.

Don't you just hate evil cliffhangers!