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End Chapter 5

"Piper! Paige!" Phoebe yelled.

They both hurried over.

"Scabbers, who in the darkness dwell,

We vanquish you with this spell,"

Zayon yelled in anger and flamed out.

"Acid made of anger and hate,

Let it turn on you, and incinerate"

There was a blinding white light and Chris put his hand up to cover his eyes. Sounds of yells filled the room as the demons were vanquished by their own acid. When all went quiet the light faded away.

The first thing Chris saw when his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room was Wyatt.

He was lying on the floor, and he wasn't moving.

Chapter 6

"Wyatt!" Chris yelled as he ran to his brother's side, "Dad!"

Leo was already there. He placed his hands over Wyatt, but no golden glow came.

As Chris watched, tears started to sting his eyes. Why wasn't he healing? Why wasn't he waking up? He couldn't be…. He just couldn't be…

"Dad?" Chris asked his father, his voice starting to shake. He dreaded the answer he might receive, "He's not…he can't be…" His voice faded away.

"No, he's alive" Leo said.

Chris let out a sigh of relief.

"But why can't you heal him?" Chris asked him.

"Because he's not physically hurt," Leo said, "He's just exhausted. Not just physically, but mentally too. It must have taken all the strength he had to keep up his shield for that long. All he needs is rest. I'll put him on our bed." Leo said as he looked at Piper, who nodded her head in agreement.

She had been completely frozen until then. She hadn't dared to move, dared to breath as she saw her eldest son lying motionless on the floor. But it was all going to work out.

Leo placed his hand on Wyatt and disappeared in a swirl of orbs and Chris soon followed.

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A few hours had passed, and it was getting late. Chris was in his parents´ bedroom. He had refused to leave his brother's side. Piper was in the kitchen making him a sandwich to try and get him to eat something.

Piper walked back into the bedroom and saw that Chris was still sitting in the chair next to the bed as his brother slept.

"I brought you something to eat," She said as she handed him the plate.

"Thanks," He said as he took the plate and put it on the bedside table next to him, but he didn't touch the sandwich.

"You really should eat something Chris," Piper said as she sat down in the chair next to him.

"I'm not hungry," He replied.

Piper watched him in silence. She wanted to rap her arms around him and hold him like a little child, and whisper to him that it was all going to be okay.

"You now," He said seriously as he looked at his mother, "In all his life, Wyatt's never been hurt before."

"What?" She said. She found it quite hard to grasp the fact that somebody could never get hurt.

"Well, except when he was little and he fell and hurt his knee in the park, and he couldn't heal himself because there were other people about," He said, " But besides that…"

He fell silent as he watched his brother sleep.

"I never realized what he must of gone through every time I was hurt," He continued, "I mean, I never really considered what would happen if something happened to Wyatt. I just assumed that he'd always be there. But today made me realize that he's just human too. The same weaknesses, the same mortality."

"Chris," Piper said as she placed her hand on his cheek and turned his head so that he would look at her, "When I lost Prue, I tried everything I could to get her back. But in the end I realized that I couldn't change fate. However much we love someone, Chris, we can't change what's meant to be. People have weaknesses, and that's so they would learn from them and grow stronger from them. Everything happens for a reason, Chris. Remember that."

Chris nodded to show his mother that he understood. She saw the bags under his eyes and knew that he must be exhausted by all that had happened that day.

"You should get some rest," She said, "I've already made up the couch."

"What about you and dad?" Chris asked her.

"Your father is spending the night at Magic School, with little you and little Wyatt, and I'm bunking with Phoebe." She answered.

He nodded and stood up to walk towards the living room. He realized that his mother was right. He was exhausted, he needed some rest.

"Thanks mom" He said as he gave her a kiss on her cheek, "Good night."

He left the room and made his way to the couch.

Piper watched him leave as a single tear ran down her cheek.

"Goodnight, Chris" She whispered.

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The next morning Paige walked into the kitchen to find Piper, Phoebe and Chris already up.

Piper was busy over the stove as Phoebe ate a bowl of cereal, and Chris was sitting at the table with the Book of Shadows open in front of him as he munched on a piece of toast.

"Haven't you memorized that thing by now?" Paige asked Chris grumpily.

"Good morning to you too," Chris said unfazed as he continued to look through the book.

"Is Wyatt up yet?" Paige asked as she poured herself a cup of coffee.

"Nope, still asleep," Chris answered.

"What you looking for anyway?" Paige asked him as she grabbed a piece of toast and took a seat next to Chris at the table.

"Yesterday, when Zayon was in the attic, he was wearing some sort of amulet around his neck, I'm seeing if I can ID it." Chris said.

"Do you think it has anything to do with this?" Paige asked him.

"I'm not sure, but I've never seen him wearing it before," He answered.

At that moment Wyatt walked into the kitchen. He had just woken up and he still looked really tired.

"Wy!" Chris said happily as he saw his older brother, "You OK?"

"Not so loud, Chris," Wyatt told his brother as he took a seat at the table and started rubbing his temples, "I've got a killer headache."

"Do you want anything to eat?" Piper asked him concerned.

"Yeah, sure, anything's fine," He said as he poured himself a cup of coffee. He was very aware of everyone staring at him as if he might collapse, "What happened? My memory's kind of fuzzy. I remember that Zayon came with those demons and that you were saying the spell to vanquish them, but then its kind of a blank"

"The effort of keeping your shield up drained you Wyatt," Phoebe said, "After the demons were vanquished you were unconscious. You've been asleep since then."

"Oh," He said slightly embarrassed as he looked at the floor. Things like that didn't happen to him, he was meant to be strong. He was meant to look after his little brother and the rest of his family, not the other way round.

"You saved our lives, Wyatt," Piper said as she placed a fork and a plate with some eggs and toast on it on the table in front of him.

"But it's my fault that we were attacked in the first place," He said.

"It's not your fault, Wyatt," Phoebe said, "You didn't ask the demons to attack. The only one that's responsible for the attack is Zayon, and him alone."

Phoebe's words did cheer him up slightly. She was right, and nobody had gotten hurt, but as he looked around the room he realized that his father wasn't there.

"Where's dad?" He asked.

"Don't worry," Piper said, "He's at Magic School. Eat something. You look starved."

Wyatt obeyed his mother. He hadn't realized how hungry he really was. He hadn't eaten since breakfast the day before.

"Whatcha looking for?" He asked Chris.

"Zayon was wearing an amulet yesterday. It looked kind of familiar," Chris said "Have you seen it anywhere before?"

Wyatt thought back to the day before. It had all happened so fast, but Chris was right, Zayon had been wearing an amulet and it did look strangely familiar.

"I think I have," Wyatt said, "But I can't remember where."

He munched on a piece of toast.

"What about those demons. Maybe they're connected to it," He continued, "What were they anyway?"

Paige was about to explain but Chris answered first.

"They're Scabber demons," He said matter of factly, "They're easily talked into killing someone, and they won't stop until that person's dead. But they're very useful for information. They get around a lot, know a lot about what's going on in the underworld, but they're pretty hard to get rid of once they're on your tail. You can only vanquish them with their own acid."

Chris flipped through the book to the page about Scabber demons and then he handed the book to Wyatt.

"How did you know all that?" He asked his brother, "All it says here is how to vanquish them."

This made Chris stop what he was doing. That was a very good question. How did he know that?

"I dunno. Haven't we met them before?" Chris asked his brother.

"Not that I know of," He answered.

"Huh," He said as he tried to remember where he had met them before. He had an odd feeling of déjà vu.

"Are you okay?" Wyatt asked him.

"Yeah," He said as he shook off the feeling, "Yeah, I'm fine."

He took the book back from Wyatt and continued to flip through it, looking for the amulet.

Piper, Phoebe and Paige all looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing. Maybe he was remembering what happened in his other life?

Leo orbed into the kitchen.

"Morning everyone," He said brightly as he looked around the room. He spotted his eldest son sitting at the table, "You okay Wyatt?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, dad," Wyatt said and then he caught site of Chris.

Chris was sitting with a dreamy expression on his face as he sat staring at the page that was open in front of him.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asked his brother.

There was no response from Chris. It was as if he hadn't heard him.

"Hello!" Wyatt said as he waved a hand in front of Chris´ face.

Chris snapped back to reality.

"What?" He asked, "Sorry, I was thinking about something."

Wyatt leaned forward and read the title of the page Chris had been staring at.

"Valkyries?" Wyatt asked him curiously.

This confirmed the sisters´ suspicion. He really was remembering.

"It's just," Chris said, "Ever since we arrived in this time, I've had this strange feeling. I don't know what's wrong with me, Wy. It's kind of like I'm remembering stuff, but from a dream, or from a long, long time ago. And I don't know if it's real or not."

Piper took the book away from in front of him and started to rapidly flip through the book without saying a word.

"What are you doing?" Chris asked her.

"Confirming my suspicion," She said as she placed the book back in front of Chris.

He read the title.

The Spider Demon

Images flooded Chris´ mind. A dark cave. His father caught in a spider's web.

And then he felt hate. Uncontrollable hate as he threw his father across the cave and started to punch him. Again and again and again.

The images stopped and Chris looked at his mother carefully. She had known what would happen if she showed him that page.

"It wasn't a dream, was it?" He asked her and he saw tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

She shook her head.

Wyatt was totally lost.

"What's going on?" He asked.

Chris looked at him, but he didn't see the caring and loving brother that had always been there for him, he saw the merciless killer that had ruined his life. The man that had single handedly taken away everyone he had ever cared about. The man who he hated more than anything in the world.

Chris shot out of his chair and backed away from his brother.

"Stay away from me!" He growled.

"Chris?" Wyatt said. He had no idea what was going on.

He reached his hand forward to Chris.

"Calm down." He said as he cautiously walked towards his brother. It was as if Chris didn't recognize him. "It's me. Wyatt."

Chris threw up both his arms and sent Wyatt flying into the basement door. He crashed straight through it and tumbled down the stairs.

Chris was still standing in the kitchen, breathing heavily. He was staring down at his hands in shock.

"What's wrong with me?" He asked shakily, no louder than a whisper before orbing out.

They heard a groan coming from the basement.

"Wyatt," Piper said as she rushed towards the door.

"I'm okay," He said as he climbed the stairs back to the kitchen, "I'm okay."

He walked into the kitchen and everyone saw that here wasn't a scratch on him.

Piper remembered what Chris had told her about Wyatt never getting hurt.

"How…. How is that possible?" Phoebe asked him in amazement, "You were just thrown through a door and into the basement."

"Being part-whitelighter can come in handy sometimes." He admitted.

"Would somebody please tell me why Chris just tried to kill me?"

"Phoebe, Paige, you explain," Piper told them, then she turned to Leo, "We're going to go and find Chris."

"Any idea where he might be?" Phoebe asked them.

"I think I have a hunch," Leo said as he took a hold of Piper and orbed them out.

TBC…