Disclaimer: i own Charmed. I own an Adam Ant record. One of these statements is a lie, guess which. I'll give you a clue, its not the embarrasing one.

A/N: I'm shocked by the number of nice reviews i got for that chapter, particularly since i was so unhappy with it. I'm also shocked by how quickly i'm updating.

Tv Chick: i also love Chris-Wyatt banter :)

Alyssa Halliwell: glad you liked it. couldn't resist putting at least one dig about Phoebe and her boyfriends in there somewhere.
alienangel19852003: Thanks for that nice review and here a new chapter for you, nice and quick i might add. one thing though: i'm a dudette!
teal-lover: Nice to you find wyatt comical, and no he certainly doesn't mean to be. (its kind of the opposite of me when i try and tell a joke). Well you won't have to wait much longer!
CharmedLilangel: ah honesty! That 'kinda' cut right through my soul... teehee.
Night-owl123: updates soon
Stony Angel:) Feeling bad for Wyatt? Thats a fresh comment, its usually pity for Chris. I have to agree though, his efforts do seem to be a bit fruitless. And Chris does rule!
Liquisia: Glad you pick up on my oh so subtle technique there. Also notice my quick update, caused partially by fear of that torch i can see hidden behind your back.
Mellaithwen: Random dancing? How ridiculous, glad i'm not the only one who does it.
Septdeneuf: Bingo! ... I mean no she doesn't... yet! As for the syntax/grammar thing it was kind of an in joke about an argument me and a friend had in an English Lit class. I could resist shoving it!
CharmedOne24: No they're not. I'm not that mean.

Chapter 22: Now excuse me while i kidnap my brother.

Wyatt

No

All his work, all his effort for nothing! They'd rumbled his plan before it had time to take effect; he'd hoped Chris' gradual development of new powers would open his eyes to the true path, his path and he would come home. They would rule together, his brother as his right hand man as he's always intended. Now it had all fallen apart and it was he that seemed to be changing! As soon as his aunts reversed his potion his brother would continue with his quest to 'change him' and he really had a bad feeling about that. Why couldn't Chris accept him as he was!

Damn it!

He'd have to go and get Chris himself, but in doing that he knew he'd create problems here- nothing that he wouldn't be able to handle, but still problems he'd have to resolve. Was it worth it?

No? Suggested a voice in his head hopefully.

Nice try Chris.

Yes, of course it was. His brother was worth the lives of a few dozen demons, or whomever it was that decided to take advantage of his absence.

Awww Chris looks like I'm coming to visit.

Piper

"So?" asked Piper irritably, " how exactly was this supposed to turn Chris evil?"

Paige looked blankly at Phoebe, who in turn looked blankly at Chris, who just to break the circle of blank stares, was looking interestedly at the ceiling whilst listening to his brother.

"No idea," said Phoebe, "perhaps it was just a really badly thought out plan."

"Maybe," suggested Paige, "he was hoping to drive Chris back to the future just to escape the craziness!"

"Well," conceded Piper, "that would make about as much sense as just about anything else that has happened this week."

"That's…" began Phoebe, who may have been about so say something which could have explained all the plot holes in this tale, as well as Paige's extreme out of character sentence a couple of lines earlier, but was interrupted before she had chance to speak.

"C" swore Chris, rather more violently than was necessary considering the extent of Wyatt's evil in this bizarre reality, so far extended as far as giving his family extra powers and naming Chris a welder, which, technically this Wyatt hadn't done…

"Language!" snapped Piper in an extremely mothering way.

"C" swore Chris again.

"What?" asked Phoebe

"Wyatt," explained Chris, despite the fact it didn't really explain anything. Quick to pick up on this' Paige glared at Chris, as best as anyone confused beyond belief can glare anyway, and said; "that doesn't explain anything."

Snapping out of his almost trance he became aware of the problem; he wasn't making any sense.

"He's coming here," he answered simply.

Piper's heart began to race, "here?" she asked again. She was about to come face to face with a grown up version of her child, one of her children she corrected herself: something she thought she'd have to wait a long time to see. Perhaps it was the mother in her, but she couldn't seem to focus on the part of this situation that was dangerous, i.e. the fact that her son was evil and probably coming here to kill her whitelighter. All she could think was that Wyatt was coming, and no matter what he did he was, and always would be, her son; she'd get to see what he'd look like and she was excited.

Paige:

"He's coming here."

She couldn't have heard him right surely, they'd already listed all the reason why Wyatt couldn't possibly leave the future, hadn't they? It just didn't make sense that he would come back, none whatsoever. Then she remembered; Chris was his brother and where family was concerned all sense of logic went out of the window. Chris was Wyatt's brother, that's why he was here. That's why he was still alive.

Everything seemed to becoming together in her head, well maybe not everything, she still didn't understand why she'd made herself invisible earlier, but most things. Chris and Wyatt, Wyatt and Chris. It made sense; family was stronger than good and evil, at least this family was. Wyatt wanted Chris back, even if it meant having to reclaim his seat in the underworld again, or the world, or the republic of Wyatt, or whatever he was calling it in the future. Chris was in the past to save his brother, and in a way Wyatt was trying to do the same thing if you thought about it: Chris wanted Wyatt good, and Wyatt wanted Chris evil, even if he didn't call it that. How he'd expected it to work was another matter, I mean giving the sisters extra powers was one thing, but how would that effect Chris; he hadn't even been hit with the potion. Except he had, at least the unborn version of him had. From what she'd gathered Wyatt thought that having the most power was all that was important, increasing Chris' powers was a way of tempting him, of saying "look I can give you more powers. This is just the beginning; join me and you can have all the powers you crave." She didn't think it'd work, Chris might be infuriating, he might be a sarcastic ass sometimes, but he was far too clever and too innately good to be lured over by such a cheap trick. Perhaps it was just stage one, perhaps he had something bigger planned, something which stood even a small chance of working, perhaps his coming here was a carefully planned move. Coming here? Oh god, she'd got lost in her thoughts and for gotten about that.

"When is he coming here?" asked the witchlighter, looking paler than even she usually did.

Phoebe

"When is he coming here?" she heard Paige ask. She'd expected Chris to answer, say something like; "now" or, "soon," or if she was being absurdly and unrealistically optimistic, "never, I was only joking! Ha! Lets get back to stopping him turning."

What she didn't expect was what happened. Instead of Chris' voice answering she heard a loud crack as a portal appeared in front of her. Stepping out of it came a tall man that she recognised from Chris' time ripple. However instead of the casual jeans T-shirt combo he bore in that reality as he had carelessly named his brother a welder, here he was dressed much more menacingly; head to toe in black.

"Little Brother," came the taunting call from his mouth, "little brother."

Around her she saw Piper feint in shock, whether it was from seeing the future Wyatt step out of Chris' world, or from the revelation about Chris himself, she couldn't be sure. The one thing she was sure about was that it was a completely un-Piperish reaction. If she'd thought about it, Phoebe knew she wouldn't have expected that, she'd have expected Piper to try to freeze Wyatt, possibly blow him up, maybe just scold him for being the future of all evil. Ha! That would have been interesting; a 20-something year old Wyatt from the future, in the toddlers naughty corner.

Glancing at her oldest nephew, she wondered what would happen now. Again, even with her powers of precognition she was surprised.