He did it for me Chapter 7
By: teal-lover
Rating: PG-13

Summary: Being twice blessed, Wyatt thought that nothing could ever hurt him. It's devastating to find out how wrong you can be. Takes place in the future that Chris changed. Chris just turned 19, and Wyatt is three months shy of his 21st birthday. Disclaimer in chapter 1


When Leo orbed, he had almost set his destination on home, but decided against it at the last minute. His wife was far too emotional to see their son in any way other than alive and breathing right now. Instead, he headed to magic school where he could safely hide the boy both from his family, and anyone who wished him ill will.

He knew that Piper wouldn't like it, and in fact would probably be furious with him for his decision, but he did what he felt was right for their son. She would simply have to live with it, or blow him up. He shivered at the thought as it was by no means a pleasant thing to have happen. That really hurt the few times she was angry enough to do it.

He orbed into a deserted section that he knew was rarely ever visited. The closet of the old library was perfect if he put a ward on it. Propping his son up against the wall, he kissed his forehead and closed the door behind him. He warded the door against any unwanted visitors to make sure that no one would disturb him until he returned for the boy. He took a deep breath and orbed back home to face the family and try to figure out the cryptic clues William had given him.


When Leo arrived, three heads shot up simultaneously in a hopeful glance.

Piper wiped her bloodshot and puffy eyes. She noted the absence of her baby boy and she murmured his name softly.

Leo rushed forward and wrapped his arms around even as her sisters backed away quietly. He kissed the top of her head and held his wife tightly, "We'll find another way, Piper, I promise. I swear to you on my life that I'm not letting him go."

Phoebe stomped around the room angrily, "DAMN THEM! Why wont' they help us! After everything we've done for them, this I how they repay us?" She turned her head toward the ceiling and screamed upward, "YOU BASTARDS! I swear if you don't help my nephew, you can kiss the Power of Three GOODBYE."

Paige grabbed her towel that had started to slip as she stood up and yelled, "That's right—you can forget about any of us fighting for you anymore! If you don't help us, we'll quit! I don't give a crap if evil runs amuck because of it either! In fact, we'll go down to the underworld and call a truce!"

Phoebe was further incensed by her sister's words as she taunted them with Paige's threat, "That's a good idea. Letting the bad guys know that it's open season. A little advertising will be good for you!"

Leo said quietly, "I don't think threats are going to work, guys."

"We're damn serious!", Paige huffed and narrowed her eyes at her brother-in-law. "I know you are. And for that I'm glad, because I would be right there along side you making waves…"

Piper interrupted their heated conversation with her only concern at the moment, "Where is he, Leo?"

"Chris is safe, don't worry. I hid and cloaked him from the others so they couldn't stop us." All traces of the gentleness in his voice disappeared as the anger at the apparent conspiracy against his family resurfaced. "Listen guys, we need to talk."

All three sisters immediately turned to him hearing the venomous tone coming from their normally pacifist elder. The room rapidly grew silent.

"What is it, Leo?" the empath questioned.

"When I went to speak with the other Elders, William told me a few very interesting things. First of all, they pretended like they didn't know about Chris, but they did."

Paige rolled her eyes and posed a familiar question, "Did they try to convince you to go up there to be a full time Elder again?"

"Of course. What else is new?" Turning his head slowly to face the mother of his children, he looked her in the eye as he prepared his next sentence. He took her hand anticipating that what he was about to say would enrage her, but he needed to keep them all focused on the problem. "They also tried to convince me that Wyatt and Chris should have never been born…"

Unfortunately, Leo knew his wife of twenty-four years all too well. Piper's eyes widened. Her nostrils flared. And all of the surrounding windows and glass shattered.

Paige reacted quickly and grabbed Phoebe and orbed out to avoid the flying shards of glass.

Leo's eye roamed over Piper's shoulder and saw a stray shard of glass whizzing toward them. Before he could orb, Piper froze the room and the flying glass without even moving her hands. As they moved out of it's path, Leo breathed a sigh of relief that the witch's powers had grown to eliminate the need for hand gestures to control them. If they hadn't, she probably wouldn't have been able to move fast enough to avoid being hit.

Leo took her face in his hands and kissed her temple, "Honey, please—calm down. We'll deal with that later. Right now we need to focus on getting him back. You know your powers are tied to your emotions." He coaxed her, "Piper, take deep breaths. In and out. In. Out. That's it."

"I'm sorry, Leo. This is all just too much right now" she whispered into his shoulder.

"I know baby, but I need your help right now."

"Ok. what else were you going to tell us?"

"Let's wait for your sisters."

No sooner had he spoken of the other Charmed sisters, Paige and Phoebe orbed back in. The youngest asked shyly, "Is it safe yet?" As Piper nodded silently, she uttered a cleaning spell to remove the debris and fix the windows.

Phoebe cautiously approached her older sister and laid her hand on the woman's shoulder, "They're wrong, Piper. You know that."

She whipped her head around, "Of course I know that! But Leo's right and we need to focus on getting Chris back. So let's not talk about any of that other stuff right now. I don't want to hurt you guys, and I don't know if I can control it."

Paige nodded but wasn't able to stand the suspense any longer and tapped her foot impatiently. Though the action didn't make as much of an impact since she was still barefoot from her hasty retreat out of the shower. When Leo didn't respond, she growled, "LEO!"

"Sorry. Look, when I was up there, William stopped me as I was leaving and he brought up a good point. Piper, do you remember what I was doing yesterday?"

"You were assigning new charges?" she replied in confusion.

"Right. And I assume you're not aware of this, but the only time when I can't hear or sense my charges is either when I'm in the underworld, or when I'm assigning new ones."

Phoebe crossed her arms in confusion, "But you weren't in the underworld, right?"

"No, I wasn't."

The empath thought she was following, but questioned again "Then I don't understand why you wouldn't be able to hear us just because you're assigning new charges."

Leo answered, "Because I have to have a connection with the new charges in order to transfer them to their whitelighter. Now the only way for my charges—which are the three of you, Chris, and Wyatt—would not get passed on to that other whitelighter, is if I temporarily break the connection we share that allows me to hear and sense you."

Piper closed her eyes to try to control her anger as she waited for him to confirm her suspicions, "So you couldn't get here in time."

"Exactly. I would have been able to sense something was wrong long before the demon shimmered in."

Phoebe grew angry at her brother in law, "Why would you ever break the connection Leo?"

He replied defensively as he began to raise his voice, "Because it's never been longer than a minute at most, but usually about thirty seconds. It's never been long enough to make a difference, and this time, it was only 37 seconds. Ever since Chris told me what I was like in the old future, I have ALWAYS been here for my sons."

The empath was feeling her own anger and frustration combined with the emotional tension and distress of her family. She snapped at him angrily since he was an easy target and apparently the only one willing to give her the fight she needed to blow off steam. With her hands on her hips, she sneered challengingly, "Well you weren't here for Chris this time, were you?"

Piper gasped at her sister's words and added heatedly, "HOW DARE YOU—accuse my husband of being anything less than a good father to my sons. Where the hell were you? I'll tell you where—off playing house in Hong Kong…"

Before another angry would could be uttered, Paige stood in the center of the room and whistled using her fingers. She knew how much they all hated the high pitched screeching that always drew their attention. "THAT'S ENOUGH! All of you! Fighting with each other isn't going to get us anywhere. NONE OF US were here, were we?" She waited for the other three to look down shamefully before she turned to Leo and asked, "But I think that was your point, wasn't it?"

"Yes, it was."

Phoebe took a deep breath to calm herself and smoothed back her now shoulder length brown hair. Turning to her family, she apologized, "I'm sorry guys. I didn't mean to point fingers or lash out at anyone. I guess we're all to blame here."

Leo shook his head adamantly, "No. We're not. THAT was my point." He faced the youngest sister, "Paige, what were you doing before you got Phoebe?"

"I was in the shower" she answered.

"But you took one yesterday morning? I mean, I assume you did since that's always the first thing you do in the morning?"

As Paige nodded in confirmation, Piper interrupted. "Why? You said you hate doing that more than once a day."

The youngest Charmed One was baffled herself and shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. I just felt compelled to take one again. A really long, hot, shower. It was like—nothing else in the world mattered when I was in there."

Phoebe scrunched up her face as she tried to think of a reason for her baby sister's actions, "Now see, that just doesn't make sense."

Leo moved on, "And Phoebe, you said you had a premonition?"

"Yeah," she answered. "I saw that Chris was in danger. So I tried to reach you guys by calling everyone, and I even tried the phone. I came when I finally reached Paige."

"Well how long ago did you have the premonition before you reached Paige?"

She looked up as she mentally tried to recall the time, "It couldn't have been more than a few minutes. It seemed like a really long time. But Jason didn't even have time to charter the jet, so it couldn't have been."

Leo looked a bit smug as he asked her, "Yet you still got here long after Chris was already dead?"

Paige's eyes widened at Leo's question that was more of a statement, "That means you had it afterward! I know you've had close calls before, but you've never had a premonition AFTER the fact. That would be pretty useless."

"Something delayed you from getting it when you should have" Leo commented. Turning to his wife, "And Piper—"

With a far away look, she answered wistfully, "I had a bad feeling. I knew something was wrong, but I ignored it and didn't trust my instincts. Why didn't I trust myself?" She stood up and paced furiously, "What kind of a mother am I? Instead of listening to my instincts that tell me that something's wrong with my child, I sit back down drinking tea and watching stupid movies!"

Leo grabbed her waist and pulled her to him. He stroked her back soothingly to calm the agitated woman. "You're a great mother, Piper. It's not your fault. Everything that happened to all of us was just too coincidental. Besides that, Wyatt was here when it happened, and I got here right here afterward—but there was no chance to heal Chris. And you know how much Wy loves his brother; he would have healed him if it had been possible."

Paige and Phoebe locked eyes with each other before the empath responded, "I don't believe in coincidences, Leo."

Steely-blue eyes met three sets of hardened brown ones as the anger inside the man intensified, "Neither do I. Chris wasn't just killed by a demon. He was set up. He was murdered."

Tbc…

AN: Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you—did I mention thank you? for all the wonderful reviews? You guys really keep me going.

I'm taking what little bit of free time I have to respond to reviews since they mean so much to me, and I'm taking it all the way back to the beginning—so you might need to look back a few pages to even see what I'm talking about :D

I would love to do it all the time, but never get a chance if I'm going to be able to update. And since I don't do it that often (ok, well--never.) But I'm just so pressed for time with a full time job & grad school—so I hope you find it in your hearts to forgive me. (insert Puppy dog eyes here)

But if there's anything else I you mentioned in a review that I didn't cover (cause I'm running low on time), feel free to email me & I'll respond personally. I do actually get to that a tad bit more often & I love to get emails.)

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trina-k we'll see what he decides. But this is wyatt you know? :)

and I try my hardest not to be predictable & obvious, so no—it most certainly will not be that simple. I love a challenge. And thank you! (by the way, I loved the scene with the blocks too. It was just too cute, so I took an imaginary picture:)

Stranded Stargazer—thank you. I'm glad you like it.

Leigh1986—everything will work probably out in the end, but it's going to be a bumpy road. Don't cry, we'll at least see chris again in the next 1 or 2 chapters.

Mugglewolf—thank you. He's just fine where he is right now. He's with grams! We'll see him again soon.

Terri—I'm glad you were looking forward to it, because I look forward to writing it. I even do it on the train ride to work. It just takes me a while to type, but more soon ok?

phoebe turner—thanks! And I will very soon.

Alyssa Halliwell—I'm glad you liked the letter. I was afraid it was too sappy, so I tried to ad some humor to it. But it should give some interesting foreshadowing into what' to come. I think you'll like what I have planned for the chris's. Two are always better than one, don't you think? :D

Stony Angel—don't worry about it, I'm just so thrilled you reviewed! Where wyatt goes, much trouble will ensue. He's a handful isn't he? :) Mind you, I would be opposed to getting my hands on him (and Chris too). Ha.

Nathy1000000—oh thank you! I had to write it that way because I just cant stand the idea of wyatt hating chris. I'm glad you liked the letter, even the morphine part. Funny thing about that is, I took it from my real life brother—whose name just so happens to be chris. Makes it really strange to write about this chris.

DarkGoddessRaven—glad you like it. I'm constantly writing even if I can't type & update.

IcantthinkofaFnick—I love your idea! I've already gotten a large portion of that part written, and some of it's already going to happen. You'll just have to wait & see which part. ;)

Phoeeebs—I'm glad you like it. I'll try to keep updating until I finish before school starts.

Red-rumm—thanks! I hope your still reading. If you've the other one I have under this pen name, cool. Maybe you'll like the sequel I have planned. I am actually trying to complete it before I even begin to post since school starts up again shortly.

phoebe turner—thanks. I'm just glad you liked it all. I hope it's better in the next few. Cause I'm so happy you think it's one of the best stories. Yeah, it would be too sad to leave him that way. I adore the boy to much to have that happen. He's just too hot. :)

ilovedrew88—they are stupid arent' they? I've always hated them. I hope this chapter cleared up william's connection. And about both Chris's? There is a reason for them—but should be cleared up just before the end. It should be interesting.

Drewfuller4eva—I totally agree. I never liked the show making Leo out to be the total bad guy without fixing it. He's even been kind of strange in this season too.

Juzblue—thank you. I most certainly intend to.

Prillygirl—haha. You're funny. You know I said the same thing when I read it over again! I hope you didn't get hurt:) when the chair moved.

cold-blooded-angel—thanks! I will.

Eva Cale—I try, I really do. But even if I don't update right away, I am always writing in my notebook with new chapters. :)

Faith, Love and Penny Candy—Thanks! I hope it was worth the wait.

Sakari—I hope you liked how I worked it out with Chris. It should be interesting with both of them. Hehe.

CaliforniaChick—I love sheila being part of the extended family, so she'll have a lot to do with the picture. Just wait & see.

Enchantersnight—your wish is my command ;) And thank you.

jenna51980—I'm glad you like it, and I didn't know they could fly:) I will update again soon.

Pita—thank you. I will keep it up, hopefully more quickly now that the semester's over for a while.

Charmedsisters—thanks. Don't worry, I would never leave such a hottie dead permanently. But I do love to mess with him. It's so endearing :)

Nikki14u—Thank you. I can't wait to find out what happens next either. Just kidding. I do know & have an idea for the whole plot & ending. I just have to work in time for the dialog.

XLuckiLuVx—I'll bring him back. Probably. Well, we'll see. Thanks.

prettyredneck8—don't cry. But he's just had such a tough life that I had to make it tougher. But I think things will work out for him.

nighttime writer—your welcome for the update. It was my pleasure since I love to write. I even hope to keep updating until I finish lol.

darcy101—I will continue, and of course—as soon as possible.

Merope—oh I hope you don't think of me as bad as that jerk! I just like to mess with Chris. He's just jealous of him getting all the attention. And thank you. I try.

Heather—I will! I will! I think? :) Thank you.