He did it for me
Chapter 21
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.
Note—one curse at the end of the chapter.
AN: I've been so bad and left you with many terrible cliffhangers lately-sorry, couldn't help myself;)
But I swear—I'm going to CA meetings (cliffhangers anonymous). So to make up for it, they said I had to at least let you know-who, if not why, in this chapter. Yes, this person does have a plan. A dirty, rotten, evil, sinister—you get the point—plan.
And how about a reunion?—yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Next chapter if you want it…
Disclaimer in chapter 1
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Ear piercing, shrilling screams could be heard outside of the door. But no one was around to hear it.
Inside, he still tried to defend himself. His body would not give up.
The angry mother froze selective parts of his body, blowing up extremities and sucking her teeth irritably at being forced to share the destruction against her husband's power of electricity.
"Please understand," Matthias begged breathlessly, "We had no choice in the matter."
"EVERYONE HAS A CHOICE!" Leo yelled angrily.
"NO! If hadn't offered them both to him, he would have destroyed the world. I saw the scroll, and I know it to be true!"
The couple shared a worrisome glance, but only Piper voiced her concerns, "Wyatt? Wyatt is in danger too?"
Matthias looked surprisingly startled at her question, "Wyatt? No. He's proven himself as a force of good for the time being. No. I referenced your other sons."
Leo raised his arms threateningly, hissing a response dangerously, "I'm giving you till the count of five to quit playing games, Matthias. We only have two sons. Chris. And Wyatt." Holding the other man's gaze as he called his wife, "One. Two. Piper."
She answered with her hands raised, blowing up one of the Elder's arms, allowing just enough time for it to reform before Leo struck it with a lightening bolt. The two knew being blown up was extremely painful, but to be blown up and immediately electrocuted in the same spot was doubly so.
Matthias howled again, trying his best to writhe in pain to shake off the feeling. "YOU SAID FIVE!" He cursed that damned woman under his breath as she deftly kept the rest of his body frozen in position.
Leo replied nonchalantly, "I lied. Learned it from you. Now are you going to stop with the games, or are we going to play them some more? Because I think I'm better at it."
Breathing heavily, he managed to stutter out, "…Chri..Christopher…"
Piper warned him, "You said BOTH OF THEM!"
"Yes, but I meant BOTH Christophers."
Leo's hands dropped to his sides in shock, "What?"
"Both the one that you raised and the other one. The one from the first timeline…"
Piper shook her head in denial, "No, that's not possible. His timeline doesn't exist anymore, so he wouldn't exist either. There can't be two of them."
His body now fully reformed, Matthias regained some of his cocky behavior and laughed absurdly, "All this time, you're telling me that you didn't know? I am utterly astonished—that you are not as intelligent as you claim to be."
Unsure, but also unwilling to believe the man completely, Leo's voice faltered, "But he died in my arms. And then I saw him disappear…He's gone…"
Piper, on the other hand, never quite believed that Chris ceased to exist and expressed her theory, but began to shake with doubt, "No, he died at the same time I gave birth. He was simply reborn."
Matthias confirmed confidently, "No, he simply was not. He has remained dead for the past nineteen years. You are close-with your grandmother? Because Penny was aware of his—status. And I am quite sure she's visited you on several occasions over the last two decades. She didn't tell you?"
Sheila stood in the background, warily eyeing the distraught parents. They seemed to be loosing focus in their questioning, and she decided to continue for them. "Who wants them and why?"
The Head Council member purposely ignored the mortal's question, instead focusing intently on the two people in the room that could—and currently were—doing him bodily harm.
Piper noticed his hesitation and ordered him to answer; to which he shifted nervously and whispered the name as if afraid to mention it, "I-uh—well. It was Julius. And he has to have them both, but I'm not sure why—"
Leo suddenly grew enraged again, "You sentenced my son to death and you don't—even—know WHY?"
The older man backed into a corner fearfully, "We had to, Leo. He was going to destroy the world if we hadn't allowed it. He demanded we give them over…We had no choice…"
"You always have a choice, Matthias. And you chose to murder my son. Now who is this, Julius?" Leo questioned.
Piper gritted her teeth, the very name infuriating her. She asked in disbelief, "Destroy the world? Right. He doesn't have that kind of power. I should know."
"Who's Julius?" Leo asked again impatiently.
"Yes he does. It was in the scroll! He could do it! I read it with my own eyes." Matthias reasoned.
Shaking her head in denial, Piper retorted, "I don't care what you read. Since I used to be one, I know for a fact they DO NOT have that kind of power! And as head of the Elder's Council—you should know it too!"
Tired of being ignored by all in the room, Leo threw a lightening bolt at the desk in front of him and exploded it in frustration. "DAMN IT! WHO IS JULIUS AND WHERE CAN I FIND HIM TO KILL HIM?"
Piper placed a restraining hand on her husband's bicep to calm him, "You can't kill him Leo. He's already dead."
Leo's patience had waned, and he glared at her until she elaborated. "Who is he, Piper?"
"He's an Angel of Death. More specifically—the one who made me one right after Chris was born."
Sheila gasped as she recalled that incident well. She remembered how distraught she had been when she heard on the news that her best friend had simply dropped dead in the middle of the street. And because of the feud between her husband and their family at the time, she was hesitant to go to them for fear of rejection. When Darryl had come to her that same night and informed her that Piper's death was all an elaborate hoax, she didn't believe it for one moment. But she didn't care. She didn't want to loose them—any of them. That was when she gave her husband an ultimatum that they mend their relationship with the Halliwells—their extended family.
She vowed then that she would always support her extended family in whatever they needed. The Halliwell's would always have a friend in her—and whenever she was needed. Seeing their lack of focus as they debated quietly amongst themselves over the validity of the Elder' statements, brought her to the realization that she was needed now.
Sheila again redirected the questions, interrogating the man as if he were on her witness stand, "We would like to see the scroll you are referring to."
"I don't have it. He keeps it each time after we've seen it. He's always kept it."
Sheila's mind hung on one word, refusing to let go until she brought it to their attention, "What do you mean, always?" His sudden squirming clued her in to the depths of the Elder's duplicity, causing her eyes to widen in disbelief. "You've been planning this since the day he was born nineteen years ago, haven't you?"
Matthias looked rather nervous as they closed in on him, and quickly made excuses that he hoped would earn him a reprieve, "Leo—that's why I've been trying to get you to become a full time Elder—I knew how painful it would be for you to loose your youngest, and it was inevitable. You see, I was only looking out for your own interests."
"My own interests?" Leo asked in disbelief, letting out a hollow laugh, "Will you help me get my son back?"
"I can't Leo. There are some things that must be done for—"
"The greater good, right? Yeah I've heard that line before. And it's still bullshit." He turned to his wife and friend with a raised eyebrow, who nodded in approval of his silent question; both seeming to agree that the man could offer no more.
Leo leaned in, his blue eyes transforming into a steely gray color. "Matthias? I told you conditionally that if you tried to stop me from getting my son back, that you would pay with your life. But that was before I found out that you're responsible for what happened. You're not fit to be an Elder. So now the conditions have changed…"
Ear piercing, shrilling screams could be heard outside of the door. But no one was around to hear it.
Inside, he still tried to defend himself. But this time, his body gave up…
Tbc…
AN: yeah, I know. Another one—right? But I'm going to the CA meetings…I'll try to do better next time, ok? And I have no idea if Julius is really his name, but it sounded right for my story. Next chapter—let's see what Chris Wyatt are up to, heh?
