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The Ties That Bind
Chapter Three
"NO!"
Two figures launched through the portal, barrelling into Wyatt with their momentum and forcing him to drop the force field and drop the energy ball to the floor in surprise.
An older girl, about twenty with auburn hair threw him to the attic ceiling telekinetically while he was still reeling from the shock attack. The other, younger with brown hair, recited something under her breath.
"What are you doing here?!" Chris cried, throwing shards of glass at Wyatt as his older brother picked himself up off the floor and began advancing on their position. "Man, actually? I don't wanna know." He answered his own question, waving off their answers, "On three we push him back through the portal, and if we do it together we should be strong enough. One." Wyatt began chanting under his breath, "Two." Paige redirected an energy ball from where Leo was healing Piper to the broken cabinet, "Three!"
Hands outstretched and concentration etched on all three faced they fought Wyatt's own powers to levitate him back into the attic.
"What's he chanting?" asked the auburn-haired one.
"How am I supposed to know? Let's just get him out of here," Chris replied, "And you two are gonna follow right behind him."
"Yeah yeah," said the brunette, "I want a thanks before we do."
With Wyatt still whispering whatever it was he was whispering and now metres away, Chris saw the edges of the portal begin to thin and dim, slowly getting smaller. Panic that had been filtering away came back full force again.
If they didn't get though… Wyatt would be stuck in this time. They'd never get a chance to block all time portals like he'd been planning this morning.
"He's closing the portal! Go! Now!"
Chris sent a surge of extra power towards Wyatt; the older Halliwell flew violently through the now barely-there time portal, the cracking sound of bone breaking echoing around the attic as his arm hit the wall. The auburn haired girl ran though with a last glance at Chris, leaving the brunette to exchange a lingering look with the young witch-whitelighter before running after her time-travelling accomplice… only to run smack-bang into the attic wall.
It was too late.
"Ow." Was all she said, sitting on the floor, "Okay? Um,
Hear this text,
Heed my rhyme,
Take me though space and time,
To where I lived before this contest."
Nothing happened. No portal, no swirl of lights. Not even a pop. She turned to the Halliwell's who'd been watching from aside, unable to help. Ignoring the sisters and Leo she focused on Chris.
"A little help? I need to go home now that we stopped Wyatt for awhile!"
"I know, how about together, and with a proper spell."
"Hey! It wasn't that bad!"
"Whatever, look say 'Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind. Send me back to where I'll find what I wish in place and time'. Okay?"
"I hate you."
Chris gave his own version of the Halliwell smirk, "No you don't. Come on."
She sighed and took his cue,
"Hear these words, hear the rhyme
Heed the hope within my mind.
Send me back to where I'll find
What I wish in place and time."
"Maybe the Power of Three?" she asked hopefully when no portal appeared.
Leo shook his head, "I doubt it will work, Wyatt probably blocked portals to his time."
"And you know that how?" Piper asked Leo accusingly.
"It'd make sense."
"So the all-knowing all-mighty Leo can predict the future now can he?" the girl smirked, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
"Not now Cadey." Chris warned, and then to the girls, "Could you at least try? Please?"
"Sure, honey. C'mon you two." Said Piper, rallying her sisters together. With practised ease the three witches spoke in unison, directing their words at the faint Triquetra outline still present on the wall from another time,
"Hear these words, hear the rhyme
Heed the hope within my mind.
Send me back to where I'll find
What I wish in place and time."
Once again nothing. Cadey dropped back onto the attic floor. "Great. And where's my thank you? Poof!" She flicked her hands outwards, "Nowhere!"
"Thank you Cadey. But what the hell were you and Jenna doing here? Don't you ever listen to me?"
Cadey stuck out her tongue, "You're welcome; saving... Piper and you; and no, well, sometimes."
"Um, excuse me, but don't you think you should tell us what's goin' on?" Paige suggested. Now that the weird action of the day was over a new weirdness was present. Another person from the future.
"Ye-ah. Let's start with who she is, Chris. You know her?" said Piper,
"I am here, you know." Cadey muttered, flicking a dust bunny that was trapped in a nook between the floorboards.
Chris ignored her, focusing on his mother for the moment, "Future consequences, mom."
"Aw come on Perry…" Cadey got up off the floor and gave Chris a pleading look, "They can know my name!"
Chris relented, but only a little. The timeline really didn't need another future person in the past. "First name only."
She rolled her eyes at him, "Careful there, might destroy the oh-so-wonderful future. My name's -"
"Cadey, we kinda heard." Phoebe said, disappointment colouring her voice. Chris worried what she could feel, especially since Leo and Cadey were the only ones who hadn't taken the Empath blocking potion she would only picking up on them… meaning it would be much easier to identify what Cadey was surely feeling.
"Wow, quick in this time aren't they? What happens to that?"
Chris shot her a withering look and rolled his eyes, putting a hand over her mouth,
"We need to talk, privately." He added the last part for Leo and Paige's benefit and orbed Cadey out with him.
"What just happened here?" Paige asked incredulously, hands on her hips.
"I think," Phoebe spoke slowly in disbelief, "Future Wyatt just tried to kill Piper."
"And Chris." Piper placed her hands protectively over her abdomen that showed only a small bump.
Leo went to put an arm around her shoulder when the familiar jingle made him stop. He orbed out with a distant, "I've got to go."
Piper walked out numbly and sat heavily on her bed. What kind of future did her babies live in? What kind of mother was she if one of her little boys turned out to be an evil monster -the kind she'd been vanquishing for six years -and the other was so neurotic that he could shock veteran of all personal troubles, Jerry Springer.
"Piper, are you okay sweetie?"
Phoebe perched on the edge of her sister's bed, at that moment very glad for the Empath blocking potion if the turbulent gaze in Piper's eyes was anything to go by.
"He just tried to kill his younger brother! And me! I am not within a thousand miles of 'okay! I'm the mother of a murderer, I'm -"
Phoebe cut in quickly, "Not responsible for that version of Wyatt." She drew her big sister into a firm hug, "That thing isn't your son, just like you said. Your son, your Wyatt, is downstairs with Paige, being fascinated by his brightly colour blocks."
Piper didn't reply, but Phoebe felt hot tears on her shirt and hugged her more tightly, "Thanks to Chris we can stop that future, you can be the great mother you are to them now until they're forty and your hair is, is straggly and grey,"
Piper hiccupped a half-sob half-laugh and Phoebe stroked her hair, still talking,
"Your children will love you back just as much -look at Chris now -and they'll be good and wonderful and lovely, just like their parents. Like they were meant to be." After that they didn't speak. Phoebe comforted and rocked her sister until she fell asleep, despite the early hour, eyes red from distraught tears that should have been soothed by her husband.
Not long after Piper's breathing evened out a loud giggle reminded her of Paige and their young nephew downstairs. How long had she been sitting up here?
As quietly as possible, Phoebe picked up a throw and covered her big sister -who right now looked very young -and hurried downstairs to a rather amusing scene, struggling to contain her laughter, Phoebe snickered.
"Y'know Paige, Wyatt is the one who's supposed to eat the food?"
Author's Note: -sniffles and cries- I lost some readers somewhere... did a demon get them? Oh well, maybe they'll find their way back :) Depending on how my GCSE results go (ON THURSDAY! EEP!) the next chapter will be posted, uuuh sooner or soon. LOL. Oh look, it's raining again....
Review Thank You's To:
Jackie: Hi :D Thanks -blushes- :D
teal-lover: Hiya! OMG! Your fic is great! I love it to pieces! Heheee (I'm a wiiiiitle bit of a fan) is very evil lol :S Oooo we have a Chris supporter! :D Anyone wanna be Wyatt's supporter? Then we could get someone for Piper, Paige, Leo, Phoebe and a few other people...who are being written in soon lol.
Calen: -snort- sorry.... hi :) i've just got this image of a GI Chris pulling out the pin and lobbing in orbs to Wyatt's throat! Keeps making me giggles to myself and everyone thinks i'm insane!
purpleant: Hay :) Ooo I like shocking people :D Yeah.... Wyatt's a bit of an evil bugger really...
deranged black kitten of doom: OH WOW! Your s/n is pretty damn cool! Really! I like it :D Yep, i'm evil.... don't worry. It's a good evil :D So... what did you think? Thought i'd throw her in there. Don't know if I'm gonna send in any lions in yet though :D
melissa: hullo :) teeheeee :D Better? No cliffie this time :) And btw -spongebob is scary! I only saw 5 minutes and had to turn it off! It's a freaky show! A sponge! Living in the ocean! Who dances! And TALKS in a really HIGH voice! AAAAH!
DrewFullerFan4Life: haaay :D here's more :D
Drewfuller4eva: hehee hi :) lol that's what i said to myself!
Magical Princess: Hey:) Yup :)
Queen of the Elven City: LOL! Well here was the next installment :)
