CHAPTER XVII

"CHRISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…?" I yelled freaked out hoping he was somewhere, I tried sensing him, but he is a ghost so I can't sense him at all, even if he is a feet away from me.

Not wanting to freak anybody out and praying he was just doing something somewhere else in the house, I orbed myself downstairs and worked my way up. He wasn't in the kitchen, nor in the solarium, nor in the garden, sitting room, living room, or anywhere in the ground floor. I just begged he was talking to mom, dad or Wyatt.

I opened Wy's room as quietly as I could, but there was no use, we were all too at edge and a fly would have woke us up. Wy jolted out of his bed and turned on the lamp beside him.

"What?" He asked sleepy and worried.

"I can't find Chris!" I had no other choice than confessing.

He was up and beside me faster than I could react, asking me all this sort of questions of how could that happened. Silently we walked to my parents' room, their reaction was pretty much like Wyatt's.

"Are you sure you looked everywhere, Chris?" My mom asked worried for the fiftieth time.

"YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS mom, is not like I am looking for a needle in a haystack, he is kind of hard to miss… he is pretty tall and I don't think he would be hiding on purpose just to kill us all young from a heart attack!" I said exasperated.

"Don't be a smart ass, Christopher!" My mom reprimanded me, and I was in a BAD mood as things were, and had slept 10 hours in the last three days, the last I needed was my mom's backbiting.

"Then stop asking stupid questions, MOTHER!" I answered not in my best tone.

"Well… everybody is upset but fighting is not the answer!" My dad interrupted us. "Wyatt and Chris go look for your aunts and Jake, Piper prepare something so we can all discuss this with some coffee! I'll go check his favorite spot in the golden gate bridge. HURRY!" So we orbed out to get everybody.

We were all having breakfast and brain storming.

"Where did he go?" My mom cried upset.

"Well considering he IS you, what would you have done if you were in his situation, Chris?" Wyatt asked me out of ideas.

"That's a great idea Wy!" Phoebe said "Chris close your eyes and put yourself in his shoes, what would you have done?"

I closed my eyes and tried to ignore the piercing looks in my direction as they were all waiting expectantly for me to give them the magic answer… no pressure there… you can imagine!

"Well… mom begged him to wait till the 22 at 12 am that is when the spell wears of, and after that mom said something like "promise we'll all go with you up there and tell them what happen and deal with this together, as a family" Right?"

Mom nodded.

"Well… if I were him, that I am. That would have sounded great at the moment, but given time to think, the thought of my family paying for my mistakes would just eat me up! I couldn't let them deal with that… it would just kill me… so I would wait till everybody was asleep, probably the last night before the spell wears off, and then orb back up to elderland, so the elders would never find out where I've been all this time!"

Everybody looked at me in angry frustration.

"Hey! Don't shoot the messenger!" I said

"You CAN'T ALWAYS BE SUCH A MARTYR!" Wyatt yelled at me.

"Hey! I didn't do anything, you told me what I would have done, and I told you the truth, next time I'll make sure to sugar it up for you!" I yelled back.

"My point exactly, if you would have been in his position you would have done that, and he did it!" Wyatt answered, and lets just say that the atmosphere at the table was far from perfect.

Mom was speechless, she kept on saying "But he promised." With a sad lost stare into space.

The three little kids were looking sadly at the floor, Paige was, as unbelievable as it sounds, doing dishes and cleaning up the table (we were still all sitting there having breakfast so it was kind of annoying though). Phoebe's eyes were glassy but she seemed to be "there" at least.

"Well…" Jake said, apparently noticing that nobody seemed to be able to take many decisions. "Leo… why don't you and I go up there and find out if he is there, and if he is, see a way to solve it?"

Dad nodded and stood up, kissing mom's cheek comfortingly (for him or for her, I'll never know!).

"Bring my baby back!" Mom said sadly and I couldn't help holding her hand to comfort her, Wyatt walked to her and hugged her from behind.

"We will Piper, don't worry." Jake said reassuring "Don't worry, LOTS of elders owe us favors!"

Three hours later we were all in the sitting room, waiting for answers that wouldn't come. Wyatt, Patty and I probably did a hole in the floor from pacing around. Mom, Penny and Paige had cleaned the entire house probably like 5000 times already. Phoebe was just sitting there with Prue on her lap, staring sadly at the newest family picture that we had took a few days ago, since we wanted one with Chris.

"That's it! I can't take it anymore!" Wyatt said. "I am going up there!"

"If you are going up there I am going with you!" I said determined.

Wyatt didn't seem to mind as he started orbing away, but my mom did, she grabbed us both, pushing as back to the ground (dude, she does know how to stop us from orbing, trust me, it's not such an easy thing to do!).

"But MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM…" We both started defending ourselves.

"Nothing… there is no way you guys are going up there and not taking me with you" She said shocking us.

"Hop in, mom!" Wyatt said hugging her "We are going to find him…"

I heard him started whispering into her while they started orbing out, I don't know what other comforting things he told her, but they both seemed a little bit less edgy a couple of seconds later when we "landed".

Elderland it's a weird place, I can't say I've been there many times, it's not one of my favorite hang outs. Dad would take us up there once in a while when we were little and needed special protection, and it was mainly for Wyatt, cuz I was never much of a demon target having my super powerful, double blessed, all mighty brother besides me. Who would try to attempt doing something to me? They would always go for him.

But anyways we rarely have reasons to visit the cloudy zone, not that I really care, you can imagine. Elder's paradise is this white full of light and clouds space with sort of ancient Greek architecture, everything is white and you can see a lot of people in golden dork outfits walking around.

There is also this huge golden arch that leads to an endless corridor with rooms on both sides, that's where the elders have their rooms. They also have this huge amphitheatre, if you are thinking the elders are fun enough to watch theater, think again, that's where they have their meetings, deliberations, trials or whatever suits that room. They probably have more things, but I never really saw them, and honestly I am not that interested in seeing them either.

"What do we do now?" my mom, who had been there even less than we did, asked. "Can you sense your father?"

We shrugged.

"See mom" I explained to her "Here things work slightly different, since there is a huge concentration of Elderly and whitelighter power; it is nearly impossible to tell them apart, unless you've been here for a while or you are train to do it!"

"Which we obviously are not!" Wyatt smirked and shrugged.

"So… How are we going to know where Chris or your father are?" Mom said exasperated.

"I donno…" Wyatt confessed "It's not like I've been ever here looking for someone!" he shrugged.

"And how are we going to find them?" My mom asked us angrily.

"We can…ask around?" I said sheepishly.

"So we are going to go around asking, excuse me… have you've seen Leo?" My mom bickered.

"Basically!" I smiled shyly and shrugged. Mom sighed.

We walked to a group of three elders that were talking near by; An old man with a white beard that was the exact model of the elderly stereotype, a young Asian man and a blonde woman in her thirties. As soon as we reach them Wyatt pushed me forward, forcing me to do the talking.

"Excuse me…" I said bashfully, they turned around to look at me. "I was wondering if you could tell me where could I find Leo Wyatt, Jake Wilcox or Christopher Halliwell, do any of you know where they might be?"

"No, son I am sorry, I don't think I do." The elderly elder replayed.

"A guy…that looks just like him, only ten years older?" Wyatt said pointing at me.

"Didn't Leo and Jake come up a while ago… something about looking for Leo's son? The one that's dead and has been missing for a few days?" The other male answered.

I was about to answer that he was right, but the female elder hush us with her look and said.

"Gentlemen, do you think you can excuse us for a while? I need to talk to this people in private!" The other elders nod and left, bowing as a sign of goodbye.

When the female elder was sure nobody was listening she said.

"ARE YOU GUYS INSANE? YOU CAN GO AROUND ASKING FOR CHRIS LIKE THAT! Do you know how risky that is?" She yelled in a whisper.

"I am sorry?" I said not really sure if I should be apologizing.

"You should be! Like your dad doesn't have enough worries as it is!"

"Are you a friend of my dad? You know where he is?" Wyatt asked her.

"Yeah… I am a very good friend of your dad. My name is Marian." She said shaking hands first with mom, then Wyatt and me. "it's a pleasure to finally meet you, Leo talks about you three all the time, he really cares about you."

My mom smiled happily, we didn't… we knew how our parents sounded when they were drooling about us with their friends. "So do you know where he is? And what's going on with Chris?" She asked

"No… I know he is trying to help him out of this mess, but you guys being here is not going to help, quite on the contrary. See, not all elders are the same, and not elders think the same. There are some like me, that really like Leo and all he achieved and we are like the liberal side of the elders, more open minded, we really support your cause and don't think the kid should be punished in any way, what's more… most of us think your son should be rewarded for his actions, then you have the most radical side of the elders, that are the ones that interrogate you the other day, and kept that little secret hidden from the rest. They are the stricter elders, most of them super Machiavellian, "the end justifies the means" sort of thing and they would do anything to achieve what they consider "The greater good". For them, you" And she pointed Wyatt "are a HUGE abomination, and your brothers, cousins and aunt are more or less cataloged in the same rank, except their are less threatening; They think The charmed ones should serve us blindly and they are very pissed that you questioned us so many times, and they want their revenge, they want to show you they can hit you where it hurts. And in the middle of those two groups there is every possible combination you can think of, just like human beings. So we can't risk having you here!"

"I am NOT leaving until I know how my brother is!" Wyatt said

"Me neither!" Mom and I said at the same time.

"Just let us talk to Leo, what is he doing?"

"He is just trying to solve everything. Jake and Leo are going through a personal crusade to get him back!"

"But are they going to get him back?" I asked worried.

"Your dad and jake are collecting a LOT of favors and asking for a quite a lot more that they will be repaying till the day they die (and considering they are immortal that is a LOT of time). But I don't know son, I hope they do. Come with me…" She lead us to her bedroom and opened the door for us "You stay here I'll go find out what's going on, don't leave this room and don't do anything crazy, I'll be back as soon as possible."

We waited for twenty minutes or so, we barely spoke during that time, I don't think we had any nails left to bite. After twenty minutes Marian came back.

"Come with me… and keep a low profile!" She said, she lead us through the corridor, and there was this elder guy guarding the door.

"They are Leo's family, the kid's family, do you think you can cloak there presence if they stay here for a while?"

"Sure they can stay as long as they want… I'll make sure no one notice it." The elder guy said.

"He is Lionel, he is a great boy, he is on our side… thank god…god knows what he did to get assigned to guard him, but I think is kind of a personal thing to him, his brother was a whitelighter and his soul was recycled for something completely unfair, so he makes it a personal thing to help as much as he can in cases like this one." Marian said as she opened the door.

Inside there was a bedroom, pretty much like Marian's, a little barer, white walls, white floor, white ceiling, a white bed and a white night-table, it was like being in a mental institution, but then, the whole elderland resembled a loony bin, and not just cuz of the white decoration and wardrobe.

On top of the bed, sitting down with his feet on the mattress, his legs up, bended and his head buried on his knees, was Chris.

He turned his face around to look at the door as soon as he heard it opening. For two seconds his face transformed into pure joy and relief, as if he had just seen the most marvelous sight in the world. But it lasted only two seconds… that was how long it took him to go back to what was really going on, and remembering how dangerous all of this was.

"Chris!" My mom and Wyatt reacted at the same time running to him. I followed pretty close.

"What are you guys doing here?" Chris asked concerned.

"You thought we were going to leave you alone to rotten?" My brother said angrily. "How could you do this to us, Chris? How could you be so selfish… leaving like that and letting us to worry SICK!"

Chris looked at him guilty, I bet my mom was dying to yell at him some more too, but seeing his sad face just moved her out of it.

"Are you ok honey?" My mom said trying to check his entire body for any sign of maltreatment; of course, Chris didn't particularly let her do that.

"I am fine, mom. But back to the relevant matter here… What the hell are you doing here? You shouldn't be here, it's dangerous!" he tried to sound angry, I know he did, but he did such a lousy job at it.

"Ahh hahahah It's dangerous for us, but what is it for you… a walk in the park?" Wyatt asked sarcastically and angry.

"Yeah well, but is better if they just get one of us and not all, right?" He said resign.

"Then they should take ME!" I said "I was the one that summoned you, I begged you to come, I convinced Wy to help me… It's all my fault… they should be mad at me not at you!"

"I knew the risks I was taking when I answered your call… you didn't force me to come, kiddo; It was my decision!"

"Ok…I am definitely not in the mood for a Chris' martyr complex contest…" My mom interrupted. "So cut it out, nothing is going to happen to ANY of you two, if they want my sons they will have to pass over my and my husband's dead bodies. And I know my husband is dead and I might die in a few days… but it's just a figure it speech, cuz we will come back as ghosts, and make their lives a living hell. Anyway… Chris, baby, are you ok? Did they do anything to you?" She caressed his cheek concerned.

"No mom, I am fine… at first a couple of the "bad guys" captured me and they started sort of torturing me, but dad's friend learnt about it pretty soon and they rescue me and heal me and brought me here." He smiled comforting at mom.

"They tortured you?" Mom asked concerned.

"I said it was nothing forget about it. I am fine… now you guys have to leave!"

"We are NOT going anywhere!" I said determined.

"Are you sure your Dad's friends got to you before they could do any harm?" Mom ignored his words.

"Yes mom, I AM SURE! I am fine, Now can you leave?" He bickered "Please?" He pleaded sadly, begging.

"No." was my mom's plain answer.

Chris sighed resigned, he knew fighting against the three of us was impossible. Mom sat down beside him and leaded him to rest his head on her lap. She caressed his hair and arm lovingly. I sat down besides mom and Wyatt sat down on the floor, in front of Chris' head.

"We'll get you out of here, bro!" Wyatt told him.

"Yeah…for what they told us, Dad is sugaring up all the elders so they let you go." I told him comfortingly "can you imagine that? Dad buttering up the elders?" I chuckled.

"Dad is not going to get in trouble because of me? Is he?" Chris pouted really, really sadly from my mom's lap.

"No baby, don't worry about it, everything is going to be just fine." My mom told him still caressing his hair.

Suddenly the door opened.

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Pukah

You are the best! I am so glad you liked how everybody reacted!

'Well, if I have to turn evil, so be it... where can I start blowing things?' Yeah that's the Wy we all loved and adored… by the way… completely shocked by your idea of Piper's death, she had a long illness, Wy was adorable to Chris and Leo came back to be with his wife and kids throughout her illness though doing a crappy job… I loved it! Real nice and original!

Yeah that could be a whole twist if Wyatt turns evil… I told you… evil Wyatt is coming in the sequel… don't loose you faith… Wyatt can still turn evil.

Yeah I can see Wyatt writting
"I will not think of turning evil ever again.
I will not think of turning evil ever again.
I will not think of turning evil ever again.
I will not think of turning evil ever again.
I will not think of turning evil ever again.
I will not think of turning evil ever again.
..."

In the BOS 3000 times.

Hehehe yeah Leo was crazy mad at the elder bullshit but now you see there area few nice elders.

"if the elders have taken Chris away I personally will go upthere and kick their blessed butts so hard they'll find my shoes sticking out of their mouth." No actually our dumb ass favorite whitelighter's martyr's complex went up there by itself.

"Although probably I will have to remove Wyatt's foot first... I mean... does the elders really want to die that much?" Trust me if the elders hurt Chris Wyatt will be sticking a lot more than his shoes in his butts and tinny Chris will help him, and Leo and Piper will be glad to show them their active powers. And I am sure Phoebe and Paige will do an express reading on the Chinese torture encyclopedia to have some interesting material and join Psycho Chris and his medieval tortures.

"WHOEVER TURNS THE TWICE BLESSED GETS THE JACKPOT." Heheheheheheh can I use that line in the fiction? It's awesome, and I can see Wyatt saying it soo much!

Yeah probably a Psycho Chris- Psycho Wyatt play date will be really harmful for the world (why do you think I send Pshyco Wyatt to your place?) but they will have so much fun, and they love each other so much in such a psycho dangerous way!

Yeah I thought sending psycho daddy over there wouldn't be a good idea, besides Psycho Wyatt doesn't like him much either.

"Psico Wyatt? For me?
"Well, I can dress up like Piper and have some tea with him... I'll even play dead." Como dice el chiste… jugamos a los muertos vivos? Tu te haces el muerto y yo me hago el "vivo". O al menos espero que en España usen "vivo" Para lo mismo que aca.

Yeah my family is huge and tons of fun, when we get together in like Xmass or so we are like 100, and we get together almost every Sunday, and even if not everybody goes usually there are around 30 people each Sunday or so.. its great.

Truth was THE BEST EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR and I just got to review till the middle cuz accidently it sent by itself… god knows why… but it was sooo good…. I swear I went to bed thinking about teenager Chris!

Yeah… this cookies are SOOO good I am getting fat and I am not passing any to the halliwell Family

Nathy1000000

Ahhh gracias, fue asi como difícil decidir que poner, como hacerlos reaccionar a una noticia asi.

Si Wyatt esta a punto de morir de un colapso nervioso, el pobre chico no nacio para estas clases de trajines emocionales… imaginate si estar un rato en el underworld de pendejo lo volvio the evilest tyrant of the World… lo que le debe estar haciendo todo esto!

Nahh ojala mis males estuviesen inspirados en alguien que conozca… yo sueño asi, qie me gustaria tener, vio… pero si conozco a alguien… le pido un hermano y te lo presento! Que bueno que te hayan gustado todas mis reacciones ( O de ellos).

Si Emma esta todo bien, pero me dijo que no era celosa y que vos sos vos, que a vos te perdona… you igual me quedo con el otro Wy, aunque este casado con mi hermana de ficcion! Y si el event take place que pasara con la salud mental de Wyatt? Y si realmente queres te cuento como termina la fic…yo no tengo drama, te digo escuetamente todo lo que va a pasar de aquí al final, pero después a vos no se si te va a agradar tanto que te digan el final!

Chris-Halliwell

"The answer to mi review was so confusing i had to read mi last review to understand it!" ok so to make it easier for you I'll just copy your review, so you wont have to check : )
"Why did you change the summery?" I donno… I just felt like it, I can always change it back to what it was…

"Hehehe Elderland, i like that name it's better than "Up There" I am glad you like elderland…it's a cool name.
"Where did I go?" You went to elderland and no you weren't gagged and liquefied… though that was funny

"When's your b-day?" April the 26
"IS MI MOTHER GOING TO DIE?" Everybody dies at one point of the other my little grasshopper :P!
"How will I survive with 3 hours sleep?"
Oh you will survive… you barely slept the last days and you are used to not sleeping and having nightmares, but just in case you got a coffee IV in your backpack.

"If Chris goes to 2027's heaven how will I contact him?" I donno… you are the magic wiz here, you should be able to find a way…

WILL I EVER STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!
PLEASE! I need help!

Here I am to the rescue!

Victorious Light

Yeah I know that was mean…Yeah that's exactly what he did, he did sth stupid like going up there… its our favorite whitelighter boy… he likes pulling those sorts of kamikaze stunts

OH I am so glad you liked the way I wrote Wyatt and that it had really spoken to you. I really like Wyatt too, in this fiction, I actually like it better in my other fiction and in your fiction Wy is great too… he is funny and cute and I loved when he was fixing the house with Leo…

Yeah Piper… she also has kind of a martyr complex, and… its true if she was going to die, she is going to die anywhere, so if I were her I would try to spend my last day with my love ones, right?

Here is the update… and you were very good at guessing!

Nikki14u

Ahh that is soo cute, thanks… I am glad you liked it! And that you were able to truly feel what they were feeling.

"Now I'm left wondering what's going to happen? I also get the strangest feeling that Chris may end up dying (again) or making a deal with the Elders to save his mother." Chris is already dead (yeah I know that is a mean answer, cuz actually it doesn't tell you anything!), and no… he won't make a deal to save his mother…what's going to happen… dun, dun. I hope you like the ending, there are probably like 4 or 5 chapters left!

I hope you liked this!

phoebe turner

Well here you have a funnier chapter… I don't know if a lot happier, but is funnier…. Here you have your update I hope you enjoy it.

FRENCH "Butt kicking" SPARKLES:

I'll try… but I think she lives far!

Yeah… I LOVE psy! Its awesome, even if Freud is not my thing.

Well I feel flattered that you need and update, and here you have one… I am still a little scared though.

Wyatt is a DOLL! And episode 7x20 still hasnt aired here yet. They just (and that means I finished watching it 2 seconds ago) aired episode 7x19… though baby Wyatt was super cute in there, and so was baby Chris, but I rather have the big versions…

ilovedrew88

You have 12 little brothers and sisters? MY GODDDDDDDDD that's a lot… how you manage?hehehehe Well I am glad you liked that everybody learnt about Piper… Chris is up there in elder land… here you have the next chappie… I hope you like it!

EveryNineSecondsYouDoThisToMe

Heheh… ok now I'll fly all the way to NY just toyou're your Elton John sun glasses… and maybe I can stay to see cartoon network with you ! Thanks… I hope you liked this on too.