Love and Fear

Authors Note: I hurried with this chapter so you don't think I'm too evil. But I don't think you gonna like the end of this chappie more than the end from Chapter 9…

Chapter 10: Your last chance, Chris

"Piper?"

Piper heard her husband's concerned voice, but didn't react. She knew she should say something, do something even, but she was like frozen. Like someone had used her own power against her. Chris was gone – again. And this time he was by Wyatt. Not the sweet, innocent baby that was lying in his crib downstairs, but the murderous monster that couldn't care less about his brother's safety. Who wanted to make Chris pay for his betrayal. Who would probably even kill his brother.

"Piper, come on. You have to snap out of this" Phoebe said urgently.

"Yeah, we have to find Chris, before…" Paige trailed off. She didn't mean to say it like this.

Piper finally looked up them. "You mean before Wyatt kills him?" she finished bitterly. How could her cute baby turn into something so evil?

"Piper, he wouldn't kill Chris" Phoebe said, trying to convince herself as much as her sister.

Leo looked uncomfortable away. He knew that Wyatt would be more than capable to do it. He had seen how less he was afflicted by the death of his brother. But what could he do to prevent it? Wyatt was more powerful then the Charmed Ones and he had also cloaked himself and Chris from them. And even if they would find them, it would probably be too late anyway… No, he couldn't think like this. "Listen, we don't have time to discuss this now" he said firmly, looking into his wife's eyes. "We need to find Chris. I'll go and orb around to see if I find them. You try scrying and spells."

"If Chris could keep us from finding him, then Wyatt can do it too, Leo" Piper contradicted in a defeated tone. In the last three days had just happened too much.

"So you say we should just sit around and do nothing?" Leo exclaimed in disbelief. He had never seen Piper like this.

Phoebe and Paige winced slightly at his loud voice. In this moment Leo didn't look like his usual calm and pacifistic self at all. He wore the same look which Piper usually had when someone tried to harm Wyatt. He looked like a parent who would do everything to get his child back. "Leo is right, we have to do something and pray that with a bit luck…"

"Luck!" Piper repeated, suddenly excited. "That's it! We need luck!"

"Sorry?" Paige said confused.

"Leprechauns. We just need a bit from their luck to find my sons" Piper explained and wanted to go over to the book of shadows when Wyatt started to cry downstairs. "Leo and I'll go and check on him, you summon a leprechaun" she ordered her sisters.

Phoebe and Paige immediately went over to the book, while Piper and Leo left the attic. They could still hear Piper finding her usual voice and attitude back. "And when I found them, I will give Wyatt a piece of my mind. I don't care what Chris says. I'm still his mother and he will listen to me! Or else that boy is grounded for the rest of his life!"

Despite the situation, the two sisters had to grin slightly at each other. "Uh uh, Piper is on war path again" Phoebe then said in a sing-sang voice, before she turned her attention to the book.

Chris was getting frustrated. He was in some old lonely building and chained to a wall. That would be frustrating enough, but his brother's stupid attempts to scare him were just plain annoying. Wyatt was here. Even though Chris had lost his powers he could still sense his brother's presence. But he didn't show himself. Chris knew that he wanted to scare him, wanted him to get freaked out about what would come now, but Chris wasn't that easy to scare. He had fought his brother almost his whole life and he had never shown any fear for him and he intended to keep it that way.

"Wyatt! Cut this crap and show yourself!" he yelled, making sure that his voice sounded very annoyed. It would make Wyatt mad, he knew it, but he didn't care. If his brother wanted to kill him, than there wasn't anything he could do to stop him anyway.

A second later Wyatt finally became visible and Chris would have jumped in surprise if he wouldn't be chained to the wall. Wyatt was standing directly in front of him, his face just inches away from his own with a not so friendly look on it. Wyatt noticed that his brother was startled and grinned. "Scared, lil' brother?" he asked mockingly.

Chris snorted. "I thought you would be a bit more mature by now. Do you want us to play hide and seek?" he asked back sarcastically.

Wyatt stepped away from him, the grin not vanishing from his face, but he was clearly angry. "I would stop pissing me off. Maybe you'll live a bit longer then."

"So you don't want to play hide and seek? Oh, I'm so disappointed" Chris taunted again.

"Shut up!" Wyatt roared. He conjured an energy ball and threw it at Chris, hitting him in his right side.

Chris could suppress a scream, but immediately felt himself reminded of the incident where his mother had blown him up. It had hurt like hell, but he wasn't thinking of that, but rather about what she was doing right now. Did she try to find him? He was almost sure of it. He was glad that Wyatt cloaked them. Chris didn't want her to witness his death by the hands of his own brother. "Is that all you have?" he asked, trying to ignore the pain from his wound.

At this Wyatt had to smirk again. "No, I have something I wanna show you." With that he shot electric lightning in Chris' direction and froze it before it could hit his brother.

Chris' eyes widened. "Where did you get this from? That is an elder power" he said, more to himself. He knew that Wyatt had stolen his own powers, but was it really possible that this had been one of them? Chris couldn't believe it. He had never discovered any other power than telekinesis and orbing.

"Oh, that's not all" Wyatt interrupted his thoughts. With a wave of his hand the lighting turned into ice and continued to move.

Before Chris could even comprehend what new power Wyatt had used, the ice pierced through his shoulder and stuck in the wall. Chris gasped heavily, but managed to hold back a scream again. Cryokinesis, he then thought. But Wyatt had never been able to turn things into ice before. So that power was also new. But was it actually his power?

"Useful, don't you think?" Wyatt asked and took a few steps back into his brother's direction. "And I have to thank you for that."

Chris didn't say anything. What should he say? Come on Wy, give me my powers back, so I can kick your damn ass? He would like to say this, but for what use? Wyatt wouldn't give him his powers back and would only be more pissed.

"You know what?" Wyatt suddenly asked.

Chris resisted the urge to say no.

"I would probably spare your sorry life" Wyatt said, in a last attempt to make his brother understand how serious he meant it. "I'll give you back your telekinesis and you can work for me. And if you prove me that you're loyal from now on than I'll…"

"Did you hit your head? I'll never join you, Wyatt" Chris spat determined.

Without warning Wyatt grabbed the still frozen lightning that stuck in Chris' shoulder and pulled it out. Chris was caught off guard and couldn't help but let out a little scream. Satisfied Wyatt threw the blood covered lightning to the ground where it shattered into a million pieces. Then he stepped away again and said with something final in his voice "Your last chance, Chris."

Chris breathed heavily. He knew that if he refused now, Wyatt would kill him. But he couldn't join Wyatt. In the second he had ordered the murder on their family Chris had vowed himself he would never do that. He would never betray everything his family, his mom, had ever stood, fought and died for. Chris looked into his brother's ice blue eyes and managed it to put the same coldness in his own. "Go to hell, Wyatt. I will never join you!"

Before he had even finished his sentence Wyatt had already raised his hands and shot electric lightning at him. Only this time he didn't turn it into ice, but let it hit his brother with full force. For a few seconds Chris could stay strong, but then his painful screams started to fill the building.

Wyatt was too distracted to notice Barbas who flamed into the room. He watched with amusement how one brother tortured the other. So this two were the offspring from the Charmed Ones. It was just too ridiculous. The most powerful forces of good magic and they were fighting against each other. And they were distracted. It was the perfect time to get his revenge. He had already failed twice today, but this time he knew he would succeed.

"Did you find them?" Piper asked hopefully, when she returned to the attic and saw a rainbow vanishing.

Phoebe nodded. "Yeah, where's Leo?"

"He's dropping Wyatt off in magic school. He should be here in a sec" Piper answered and just as if to prove her words Leo appeared on her side.

"Did you…"

"Yes, we did" Paige cut him off, knowing what he was going to ask. "Can we go?"

Piper and Leo nodded and took each others hands. It was time to save their younger son from his evil sibling. Little were they prepared for what they would find…

TBC… (Barbas isn't giving up. But what will he do this time? And what will the Charmed Ones and Leo find? Is Chris dead? Or is it something else? Please review!)