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Rating Note: It's for language only, folks :) Blame Chris.... Wyatt is about to kill his mother and his language went PHOAAAAF!
The Ties That Bind
Chapter Two
Piper was the first to overcome the shock that had fallen on them like ten tonnes of bricks, grasping her little Wyatt ever closer as if in doing so it would make the fratricide going on around her not true,
"You are not my son! Let Chris go right this instant!"
The smirk grew wider, a chilling expression to witness… that of a predator to its prey.
"Come now mom, do you really think you have any power over me any more? I'm not a toddler!" With a quick motion of a hand Chris flew up and smashed through the last of the cabinet to the wall. He slid to the floor, unconscious.
"It's not him I want. Well, not directly. I would never kill him, he knows that. And that's why it's unfortunate for you."
Paige crouched over Chris' limp form, taking in the shallow breathing and the blood-matted hair from a knock to the back of his head and came to a decision. "You're sure as hell cutting that line close! Leo! LEO!"
A swirl of orbs came and left, depositing one Leo Wyatt.
"Blesse- Paige! What happened?" His serene expression dissolved into concern, taking in the scene around them, and finally, "Chris!"
"Heal!" The half-whitelighter Charmed One instructed, once the golden glow began, giving Chris' skin around Leo's hands a temporary luminous effect, then she explained. "He," she pointed to future Wyatt, "happened."
"Hi dad."
Wyatt's voice held a sinister edge that Piper wasn't sure what to make of. He was just standing there, leaning nonchalantly against a sofa, it was almost like…
"What are you waiting for?" she asked, fearing the answer. Whatever the response was it wouldn't be good and she knew she definitely wouldn't like it. If he wasn't going to kill Chris that how could Wyatt get him?
Chris awoke with a start, jerking upwards against Leo's hands that still hovered above his chest, he gasped for air and gulped it down greedily.
"That." He said simply, standing up from his comfortable lean. In one wave of his hand little Wyatt disappeared in a flurry of orbs and Piper flew into a pile of heavy boxes.
Chris pushed himself off the floor, running to his mother at the same time as the others -Paige didn't need to be an empath to know he feared for her. As one they were pushed backwards behind a blue force field, made to watch and unable to intervene as Wyatt stalked over to a very dazed Piper, an energy ball building up power in his hand. Chris realised his intentions and a heavy, sickly feeling settled in his stomach, gripping his heart 'til he felt every beat and skip.
"Wyatt no! She's our mother!"
"Correction, little brother she's my mother. You're not born yet, remember?" He played with the energy ball, juggling it between his hands like it was just a baseball.
"What? Chris you've watched her die before how hard can it be to do it again?"
There it was again, that smirk. That self-confident, sneering, superior smirk, that now sickening smirk that Chris could remember from every stage of his life. When one of them did something and Wyatt got the credit; when Wyatt got away with everything and they got punished for the same things, especially Chris; when he and his brothers tried to convince their mother that Wyatt had used magic for personal gain and no-one believed him; when Wyatt bound his powers as a practical joke and Chris got the blame for not saving their mother… he hated that smirk.
The others had caught on now, were screaming at Wyatt, throwing themselves against the force field, trying to orb through it…. Chris already knew doing all that was useless, that force field was completely magic-proof. He'd been in this position countless times before, forced to watch because Wyatt liked him best, forced to watch Ben and Brennan… That didn't mean he could stand to watch his mother die again. His shouts joined Leos.
"Wyatt! Don't!" His screams fell on deaf ears (again), so he spared a moment to sense for baby Wyatt; he was downstairs in his playpen -safe and oblivious. He felt better and shouted again.
Future Wyatt let out a snort of laughter, taunting them further by throwing the energy ball. It scorched the floor barely inches from Piper's head, singeing her hair.
This time Chris joined them in throwing himself at the 'field, cursing the man his brother had become -one so low as to come back and kill his own mother. Their mother. The consequences of such an action… he felt his heart skip a beat and go faster.
"You're a coward Wyatt! If you want to kill me don't do it through me! You hear me? You're a fucking coward!"
"Say goodbye to mommy Chris. Oh, you better too dad, Aunts."
"Fight me Wyatt! Don't get mom involved!"
He smirked and raised his hand, a new energy ball floating over his fingers, Chris' words rolling of him.
(TBC)
Author's Note: -grins madly and falls over in shock- WHOAH! I never dreamed I'd get so many reviews for my entire first Charmed fic! Let alone the first chapter :D Just... wow.... feels great! Please go ahead and review again! I love this feeling!
Oh.... sorry about the cliffie :P
Review Thank You's and Replies To:
The Celtic Angel: lol gem you sound like s two-year old :P There's your more, i keep changing it ;)
Sakari: God? Why thank you.... or did you mean good? ;) That gave me giggles :D
piper wyatt-halliwell 1973: actually.... she already knows.... my episode timeline will obviously be screwed because i don't have one ;) I've seen up to the one with the dragon now, but i missed th first part of the valhalla one, and i've not seen the end of s5 so....
zoned-out: As long as one person is :D
Jenn: There you go :)
Pixiedust-hunnie: Does that answer any of your questions? Don't die! Don't die!
Cat Yuy: Continued I have... your interest still peaked?
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gabwr: -singsong Dory voice- just keep writing just keep writing....
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ChArMeDcRaZiChIcK: Well it's made it's way to the second chapter... :D
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Aldrea7: -blush- Well I hope this wasn't too long... Quite quick for me actually ;)
Angel black: Ooo funky name! Liking a bad guy? Well making him likable wasn't the objective... but hay :D I'll run with that!
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Queen of the Elven City: OMG! That was my favourite line too lol!
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