A/N: I just realized that I have the wrong name for the dark lighter in chapter one. His name was Alec not Derek. I will revise soon. Sorry if it was an inconvenience. I hope that everyone who reads enjoys. Please review. Now on with the show…

Disclaimer: If I owned Charmed I would be one very rich very happy girl. Since I am only happy most of the time and not even close to rich that means that others own Charmed and I do not. Oh well.

Chapter Three

Chris was the first in the attic to regain his wits. Wyatt's letter had thrown all of them for a very unpleasant loop. Chris had made up his mind. Sara was not going to die and the future would not be terrorized by the power obsessed, twice blessed son of a charmed one. He was going to save them both. The first thing he needed to do was get Sara back to the future so Wyatt could save her, then get back to the past so he could continue to save Wyatt from whatever turned him. How he was going to pull this stunt off, Chris had no idea. It was going to be no easy task getting his parents and his aunts to let him take Sara back and even harder was going to be for him to escape his brother again.

"I have to go back," he stated clearly, hoping that in their current shock they would be able to understand his point better. He was wrong.

"Are you crazy?" Phoebe hollered. "He'll kill you both!"

"Phoebe's right, we can't let you go back." Paige said shaking her head.

"Wyatt won't kill me and I have to go back unless one of you suddenly knows how to save my sister. He doesn't want either of us dead."

"Piper, Leo, make him see sense. He can't go back." Phoebe yelled trying to shake Piper and Leo out of their shocked silence. Piper just gazed from Phoebe to Chris then turning he weary eyes back to Sara who lay motionless next to her. Leo's stare was riveted on Chris. "Hello?"

"We heard you, Phoebe." Leo's voice sounded strained and tired as he acknowledged his verging on hysterical sister in law.

"WELL?"

"Look, if any of you have a better idea I'm willing to listen but we have run out of time. I'm going back and I'm going to need your help." Chris said moving over to the book. "We need a potion to send us back."

Phoebe and Paige looked at Piper who was shaking her head. How could it have come to this?

"What do you plan on doing when you get there?" Leo asked his son who was flipping madly through the book. "You need some sort of plan and we still have to save Wyatt from whatever evil is trying to turn him here and now."

"Look, if all goes as I hope it will, none of you will have time to worry about it. I'll go back; do what needs to be done, and then I'll use the spell from before to come back. I should arrive within only a few minutes of when Sara and I leave." Chris rambled as he found what he was looking for, a potion to take him and Sara to the future. "Can you get this made within the hour?" he asked of his aunt's.

When neither of them moved Chris found his patience wearing thin. "Please!"

"Only if one of us can go with you." Phoebe stated firmly

"No."

"Chris your going to need our help," Paige tried making him see their side.

"I have done just fine without you in the future. This is my home, my time and I know what Wyatt is like and if you come with me you're just going to be a burden."

"He's right." Piper's voice startled all of them. She rose from her place by Sara and turned to gaze at them. "As much as I hate to admit it, he's right."

"WHAT?" Everyone in the room but Chris shouted.

"I don't want him to go any more then the rest of you," she sighed looking down at Sara then at Chris. "I just can't bear the thought of watching one of my children die before I even get a chance to know her."

"Piper, if they go back Wyatt could kill both of them anyway." Phoebe felt like screaming madly. Why couldn't any of them realize this?

"He won't." Chris muttered watching his sister struggle to breathe.

"Oh really?" Phoebe stormed over to where her niece lay. "This kind of looks like he doesn't care if either of you live or die! He had her shot by a dark lighter, certain death for white lighters such as yourselves. I can't understand why you think he won't kill you!"

"Sara is only going to die if I refuse to take her back or if I don't get there in time. He knew I would realize the only way to save her is to go to him. All he wants is for us to side with him, help him rule his twisted reality. He wants the power of three, Phoebe! Ultimate power. It was never his intention for Sara to die."

"But…"

"Not buts about it." Chris cut his feisty aunt off. "Wyatt knows Sara and I almost as well as we know him. Wyatt didn't turn over night and we were all very close growing up. Not just as siblings but the best of friends. We could read each other's thoughts and feelings. We loved each other and I wouldn't have come back here if I didn't love him. He won't kill us. Now would you please help me?"

Everyone stood still for a moment turning over what Chris had said in his or her minds. That was the most about the future he had ever spoken of. Quickly Paige and Phoebe began to gather ingredients for the potion, Leo stepped to his daughter's side and Piper headed to Chris who was back flipping through the Book of Shadows. She watched as he found what he was looking for and began to commit it to memory.

"Chris," Piper said in a soft voice that commanded his attention. It was a voice filled with love and affection. He hadn't heard her address him like that since before she had died. Forcing down the lump that had risen in his throat, he turned to look her in the eye. "I want you to promise me that you'll be careful and when you come back I want you to bring your sister. Don't leave her there with him."

Chris pulled his mother into his arms and held onto her tightly. He would do everything in his power to do what she asked for. "I promise Mom," he whispered into her soft hair. "I promise."

Within an hour the potion was made, the triquetra was drawn on the wall with chalk and Chris was by Sara's side. She was defiantly close to the end as Chris gathered her limp form in his arms and picked her up. Chris knew once Wyatt healed her he was going to get an ear full, however at the moment he doubted she even knew what was going on. Turning he looked at his family who were huddled near by. They had already said goodbye and he tried again to squelch their fears.

"We'll be fine." He knew that fine was probably not the right word. While he knew Wyatt had no intention to kill them, he did know that punishment would be bestowed for their betrayal. "We'll be right back," he said as Piper threw the potion at the wall, opening the portal. He smiled softly at them then turned and stepped through the portal to come face to face with his older brother.

"Welcome home Christopher."

Chris felt rather than heard the portal closing behind him and suddenly he was afraid. He held Sara's form tightly as he gazed at Wyatt. His brother had not changed in the slightest since Chris had last left the future. His tall, muscular frame was clad in tight fitted black, his curly, dark blond hair gathered at his shoulders and his eye's were still as cold and unforgiving as ever. Wyatt strode toward him, never breaking eye contact until he stood right before Chris. His eyes flicked to their sister then back to Chris.

"Cutting it a bit close" he whispered threateningly as he went to take Sara from Chris. "She's almost beyond my ability to help."

At the exact moment Wyatt roughly took Sara from Chris' arms two demon's grabbed Chris from behind, jerking him off his feet. They slammed Chris against the wall. While one held his arms above his head the other held him by his neck cutting off his intake of oxygen.

"Just restrain him for now," Wyatt commanded the two brute demons in an offhanded way as he sat down on the sofa, resting Sara in his lap. "There will be more time for serious punishment later."

Chris watched helplessly as Wyatt brushed his sister's hair from her sweating brow and pulled a small vial out of the air. He tipped back her head letting the vial's red contents slide down her throat. Almost immediately Sara's body was thrown into a seizure. Wyatt held her down as she convulsed and started to cough, her eyes snapped open with a look of pain and horror. Within a few minutes time Sara was again still and her eyes were closed. Wyatt, seemingly satisfied, lifted her up so he could stand then laid her back down again, his attention now riveted on Chris.

"You've disappointed me Christopher." Wyatt said as his fist connected with Chris' face making him yell in agony. The last thing Chris saw was his brother's evil smirk before Wyatt punched him again knocking him unconscious.

"Take them both to my brother's old apartment and make sure they are untouched. Once you've gotten them there you may go. I'll deal with them both later." Wyatt commanded before orbing out.

Piper, Leo, Paige and Phoebe stood rigidly waiting for the portal to open again to reveal Chris and Sara. After more than an hour passed Piper began to pace. She knew Chris' intention was to return to a few moments after they had left yet he still had not returned. Time travel made her head hurt awfully.

"Where are they?" Piper was verging on hysterical. "He promised he would come right back!"

"I'm sure he will be back, sweetie." Leo wrapped his arm around his distraught wife trying to comfort her as best he could. Paige and Phoebe just stood to the side watching them sadly.

"Don't you sweetie me," Piper cried jumping away from her stricken husband. "I want answers and I want them now!" Grabbing a pen and paper she began to furiously write.

"Piper?" Paige asked when she recognized spell writing. "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like I'm doing? I am going to cast a spell so that I can see exactly where they are and if anything has happened to them. And don't any of you try to stop me."

When no one moved to stop her Piper began to draw a circle on the attic floor with the discarded piece of chalk, then began to chant.

"Hear these words, hear my rhyme

Head the worry within my mind

Show me what I wish to find

What I seek to know in futures time"

The circle that Piper had drawn began to shimmer and ripple as if it was a tiny pond and she had thrown a pebble into it. Slowly it began to reveal what seemed like a window into the future. Chris lay on a large bed, his eyes were closed yet one was badly swollen and turning a nasty shade of purple. Piper felt relief flow through her when she saw Sara walk over to him and sit down. At least they were both alive.

"Chris?" Piper listened as Sara tried to rouse her brother from his unconscious state. She watched hopefully as Sara pinched his ear. Nothing.

"Glad to see you're feeling better." Piper jumped startled at the sudden appearance of what she could only imagine was her eldest child. Sara, however, remained motionless keeping her eyes on Chris. "What? No 'thank you for saving my life?'"

"You were the one who tried to kill me in the first place so excuse me for not feeling the need to say thanks." Sara snapped as she turned to face him. "What did you do to Chris?"

"If I wanted to kill you Sara, I would have thought of something much more intense than a dark lighter's arrow." Wyatt roughly grabbed her shoulder and pulled her up away from the bed. "As for Chris, his punishment I have yet to decide upon. When he wakes up inform our dear brother that his rooms have been enchanted. There will be no orbing and I would advise not trying to escape the old fashioned way. Every window and door is guarded by my most loyal bodyguards that have been told to fire at will if either of you try to go anywhere. Have a nice night Sara." With that he threw her across the room and was gone.

Sara unsteadily rose and shuffled back to her brother. Piper watched as her daughter curled up next to Chris, resting her head on his shoulder and wrapping her arm protectively around him, tears streaming down her face. As the picture within the circle began to fade back to its natural state Piper heard Sara whisper softly to Chris.

"What are we going to do?"

Please review! I am so excited about where this story is going and I would love to hear your comments. –Jules-