Love and Fear

Author's Note: Somehow this chapter was very hard to write and I hope you all like it. I'm impressed how this story turned out, I didn't plan it to be this long and it seems like it's going to have some more chapters... Also I didn't plan to bring adult Wyatt into the past... Well, I'm still satisfied with how my story turned out and I hope you're too.

A special thanks to Septdeneuf who caused me to hurry to write new chapters for my stories. Hope you keep on writing too! ;)

Chapter 8: Powerless

Wyatt was kneeling on the floor beside his brother and watched how the blood from the deep wound on Chris' chest slowly soaked through his shirt. In that moment Wyatt realized something. Chris would never join him, he would never forget about this damn good versus evil morals. He had always hoped that Chris would understand that they were meant to rule together, but it seemed like he had been wrong. The fact that Chris was here in the past to 'save' him proved it more than anything else. "Well, seems like I don't need you anymore, brother" he spoke with venom in his voice. How dare this damn brat to try and destoy everything he had worked so hard to create.

Wyatt then looked up at Leo who tried desperately to break through his shield which he had built up when he had seen his father coming near them. "It's too late, Leo. He's dead. You can't save him" he said casually, as he was talking about the weather and not about his dead brother.

"No!" Leo screamed, not able to believe it. "No, he's not! Leave me to him! I can heal him, I know I can!"

Wyatt stood up from the ground and took a few steps back before he lowered his shield. Immediately Leo crouched over to his younger son and hold his hands over his wound. He then waited for the golden glow, but he already knew that it wasn't going to come this time. Chris was dead. The realization hit Leo hard and he bowed down his head on his son's shoulder and started to sob. This had to be a nightmare. And he would wake up any moment. And Chris would be alright and bossing them around to hunt demons. It was just a nightmare...

"Get away from him, Leo" Wyatt said suddenly, but Leo continued to cry at Chris' side. "I said, get away from him!" Wyatt shouted and threw his father a few metres away.

Leo hit the floor hard, but he didn't care. The only thing he want was to be by Chris. He stood up from the ground and went back to where his younger son was lying, but Wyatt put up his shield again and kept him from coming close. "Leave me to him" Leo repeated his words from earlier, but this time they came out as a whisper and in a defeated tone. He had lost his son... his son was dead...

"Sorry, but I have some work to do" Wyatt said, before he knelt down next to his brother. He knew that the spell he was about to cast would have a unwanted sideaffect, but he wanted Chris' powers. Wyatt had to surpress a laugh when he thought about the binding spell he had casted on his younger sibling when they were little. After all he couldn't have allowed his brother to be as powerful as he was. And now he was going to have Chris' powers too. That was actually the only reason why Wyatt had wanted his brother to join him, but now he knew that this was never going to happen and maybe it was better this way.

Leo watched with a sickened feeling how Wyatt started to grin. His brother was dead and he seemed to be happy about it. Now Leo finally understood why Chris had come back to save him. The thought about his younger son's heroic actions and the satisfied look on his older son's face made him angry. This was all wrong. "What the hell is wrong with you?" he suddenly yelled and it seemed to surprise even Wyatt. "You're sitting there, grinning, while your brother lies dead beside you! How can you..."

"Stop yelling at me" Wyatt interrupted him while his temper rose too.

"I won't stop until you realize what a damn evil person you've become!" Leo shouted, not daring to look at Chris, because he knew in the second he did, he would break down again. But he needed to bring his older son to his senses now. Maybe they could even work a way out to bring Chris back... "What happened to you, huh? How can you care so less about what your brother did for you? He came back to save you and this is how you act? You grin? For god's sake, he's..."

Finally Wyatt had enough. "Stop with the lecture!" he yelled loudly and caused the windows to shatter. He breathed heavily to calm himself down before he turned once again to his father. "Don't worry, you're gonna see my damn brother again" he then growled, not liking the fact that he had to bring Chris back to life if he wanted his powers. But it wouldn't matter anyway. Without his powers he wouldn't get into Wyatt's way ever again.

"What do you mean?" Leo asked startled while he finally glanced back at his younger son again with a slight hope rising inside him. "You can bring him back?"

Wyatt nodded. "But if you prefer to yell a bit more at me instead of letting me concentrate, then go on."

Leo immediately dropped down on his knees as close as he could to Chris and waited for his older son to save him.

In the underworld

Piper sighed frustrated. It was almost a half hour ago that she and her sisters had orbed down here and found Barbas. They had wanted to attack him, but then something happened that neither of them had expected. Barbas had started to run away from them. If it weren't so annoying then it would be very funny seeing the demon of fear running away from them. "Barbas!" Piper yelled clearly pissed when she watched how he turned around the next corner.

"Okay, what the hell is wrong with him?" Phoebe finally asked. "I have never seen him like this ever before."

"Maybe he's afraid of us" Paige suggested while she tried to catch her breath. She was usually very fit, but the air down here was really bad and that didn't help when you're running after someone for over a half hour.

"The demon of fear and afraid?" Phoebe said and raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

Paige shrugged. "Why not? He maybe knows that we have something to vanquish him."

"Maybe" Phoebe agreed. "Anyway, I don't think we're gonna catch him now, so let's just go back to the manor."

"No" Piper immdiately protested. "I'm not leaving before we've vanquished him!"

"But, Piper, if keeps running away from us then it can take us a long time until we'll get him" Paige argued.

"He tried to kill my son" Piper hissed angrily. "I'm not gonna sit back and wait for him to try it again."

Phoebe sighed and nodded. "Okay, then let's go."

Paige didn't say anything, but followed her sisters. When they turned around the corner they were surprised to see Barbas standing there, who made no attempt to run away this time. Instead he was smirking and asked "What took you so long? I've waited here for a minute or so."

The sisters looked at each other uneasily, not knowing what to think about the situation. "Why did you keep running away from us?" Paige asked suspicious. Something was wrong here.

"To make your worst fear come true" Barbas answered, looking at Piper.

Piper's heart seemed to freeze when she heard this. Her worst fear... Chris! And Wyatt! "Oh god, Paige orb us back home!" she exclaimed frantically, dreading what had happened there.

"What? Why?" Paige asked confused.

"Because this was a set up" Phoebe answered instead of Piper, glaring at Barbas. She finally understood why he had kept running away from them. He had just wanted to distract them. Barbas waved at them with a mock gesture before he flamed away. The sisters immediately linked hands and Paige orbed them back to the attic.

Piper had already considered that something had happened to one of her sons, but it was still a huge shock for her when they arrived on the attic and she saw Chris lying motionless on the floor with a wound in his chest while a strange man was kneeling beside him and said something that seemed to be spell. Leo was also there on his knees, crying slightly, but not able to be at Chris' side because of some force field that was obviously the work of the other man.

"Chris!" she exclaimed while tears made their way into her eyes and before her sisters or Leo could stop her she ran over to the force field and tried to break it, but she was thrown over the floor.

Wyatt noticed her, but concentrated on the purple light that started to glow from his hands because of his spell. Excited he held his hands over Chris' wound that immediately started to close a little and caused Chris to open his eyes again and to gasp for breath. The whole family seemed to be relieved for a moment, but what came next filled them with horror once again. The purple glow from Wyatt's hands became even darker and turned into some kind of lightning that struck into the still open wound. Chris screamed out in surprise and pain and tried desperately to break free the connection, but to no avail. He started to shake over his whole body and closed his eyes, while he prayed that his brother would stop with whatever he was doing to him.

"Wyatt, please stop this!" Leo yelled, scared of loosing his younger son again.

"Wyatt?" Paige gasped in disbelief, while Piper and Phoebe stared at the blonde man in shock.

After a half minute Wyatt finally stopped and stood up satisfied. He had never felt so much power in his entire life. It was simply incredable! "Thanks brother" he said and laughed at Chris, who was breathing heavily and looked at him with a painfilled expression. "I would love to stay and make you pay for your betrayel even more, but I have some new powers to try out. But I promise I'll come back." With that he orbed out of the room.

Chris immediately rolled to his side and pulled his knees up to his chest, trying to block out his brother's evil laughter and the promise that has followed. He just barely noticed how his father turned him back on his back to heal his wound, before he drifted into unconsciouness, feeling so weak and powerless like never before in his entire life...

TBC...