He did it for me

Chapter 28

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

AN: This chapter is kind of SHORT. But it's very important, and I thought little Christopher deserved one all of his own :)

Yeah, sorry—one more curse here too. But it's important to the context. You just have to read on & you'll understand.

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'Drowning was not fun', he told himself. He had to remember to put that on his list of things he never wanted to do again. But if the demon had his way, he wouldn't be making that list any time soon.

When they first threw him in the seers pool, he thought that they simply wanted to drown him. To watch the panic in his eyes and his face contort in terror as they held him under. He soon realized that it wasn't the purpose. Well, maybe to Arel, it was.

But not to the others.

Raina was there again. Her eyes almost saddened as she watched him struggling just beneath the surface. Her porcelain features rippled and distorted from his point of view, but soon even that faded in front of his eyes, only to be replaced by something else. Now he knew the pool's purpose.

They wanted to prove he was lying. Being immersed in the liquid, he soon found out that the seer's pool transmitted his thoughts into images. He wanted to cry as he witnessed his own mind betray him. He saw the confrontation between he and Chris when he first died. Christopher knew that he couldn't deny it again. Couldn't feign ignorance any longer.

Panicking as his own mind edged closer to showing them Chris' location, he gathered up his last remaining bit of strength and twisted away from his captors. They made the mistake of only pushing him down, not gripping him firmly.

Having no where else to go, Christopher pushed with his legs until he sank down further, away from the arms that scrambled to pull him back up. The image above disappeared the deeper he went under. Seeing this as his only option to distract them from their goals, he let go of the fear that he had while he held his breath the entire time. He opened his mouth and breathed in, allowing the coppery-tasting substance to fill his body. His lungs completely filled, he sank to the bottom faster than if a weight had been tied to him.

Once again, Christopher's mind sought out the solace of his own imagination. But he wasn't prepared for what else the action would bring…

He had no idea how they had reached him to pull him out. Whatever their method, Raina now seemed willing to let him recover momentarily as he sat huddled in the corner, shivering violently while Arel watched him ruefully from the opposite end of his cell. Hugging his knees to his chest, he stared at the puddle on the floor, the result of emptying his stomach's contents of the murky water.

He wasn't shivering from the bitter cold of the floor, or the wet rags he now wore. He shivered because of what he had just seen. If they thought he was just going to give in when they saw the proof of his lies, they were wrong. Dead wrong. He now had further ammunition to deny them their answer. He didn't think that the stupid demon, as he had come to call him in his mind, even knew of what was in store for them all. They probably hadn't anticipated that particular knowledge coming to him. And he was positive that they didn't know the extent of what he knew. They would be panicking right now if they did. If they had known, he was sure they would have just continued torturing him in other ways.

'Damn' he thought for what must have been the fortieth time today. His mind brushed over that word again. The "T" word. But that is what they had been doing to him. It was difficult enough to endure it, but to think about it? He wasn't sure if he would ever be right if he managed to get his life back. But if he gave in now, none of it was going to make a difference anyway.

He had seen the outcome. And he couldn't believe it. The result of what they really wanted him and his twin soul for. And the reality terrified him to no end. More so than the demon that now approached him for another 'lap in the pool'.

He planted his body firmly in place, refusing to get up without a fight. He had more reason than just loyalty to the other boy not to go back in that pool. 'NOOOO!' he yelled with a sudden show of strength, surprising even the brute demon that fell to the floor after trying to pick him up.

The others quickly rushed to restrain him. Raina backed away in astonishment as she watched the transformation of the once calm young man. He now fought harder NOT to get back in than he did to get out in the first place.

Christopher dragged his feet stubbornly, demanding all of their demonic strength to inch him closer to the pool. His erratic movements combined with his wet and slippery body made holding onto him difficult for the group. Striking out like a wild beast, his hoarse voice screamed at the Elder after they tackled him to the ground, "HE WAS PLAYING YOU, YOU STUPID BITCH! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT!"

She ordered them to let him up.

He had hit a nerve with her, and they both knew it. And he was determined to continue distracting her with it...

Christopher Halliwell had always been a bright boy. He had mastered the ability to speak four different languages at an early age. Laughing insanely, he watched her face turn red as he cursed and told her off in every single one of them.

Tbc…