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Piper glanced up at the kitchen ceiling nervously. Chris had told her everything was ok with Piper and Cole, but she still wasn't sure.
"Mom." Both Chris and Wyatt spoke at the same time. "Stop worrying. Aunt Phoebe is fine. Cole isn't going to hurt her." Chris said firmly.
"OOOhhh… what do you know? You weren't even born when he was around the first time. You didn't see how badly Phoebe mourned him. I don't want her to make some dumb mistake because she's trying to make up for Les leaving. Ooohh… I could kill him. I wish he was here. I'd kill him!" Piper cried out in frustration.
Chris smiled at his frazzled mother. "Mom, I know because I'm empathic remember. The blocking potion only works on general emotions, not on the really powerful ones. The only emotion Aunt Phoebe is feeling is love. She's not up there with Cole out of revenge for Les. She wants to help Wyatt, whom, by the way, she genuinely fears for, and she wants to be with the man she never stopped loving."
"Don't you mean the demon she never stopped loving? I don't trust him, Chris."
"Well, mom, that's good. Because you don't have to trust him. It's enough that Aunt Phoebe does trust him. And honestly, I do too. He didn't have to help us with the Sextet. He volunteered for the job! And he was good in my other life. Still a demon, but one that had turned his back on evil. He can do that again, and I believe that with Aunt Phoebe's help he will." Chris answered back.
"And mom, he can't turn good with you and Aunt Paige constantly on his back about the past. No one holds any of the times you've been evil against you. Can't you give Cole the chance he needs for a clean shot too? How will you handle it if he could have found some key piece of information to help me now, and you turn him away with your distrust?" Wyatt asked her.
Piper looked to each of her sons, now standing on either side of her. It never failed to amaze her how supremely good they were. She glanced at Wyatt, staring into his blue eyes, wondering how he could possibly be in the process of turning evil. Her gaze drifted to Chris' green eyes. He'd been through so much, in both of his lives. There was no way she could allow anything or anyone to stand in the way of getting rid of whatever was making Wyatt change. "Ok. I'll do my best to be good to him. But I don't think your Aunt Paige is going to be as easy to convince. We've given him chances before that he's blown. But for you two, I'll give him another chance. But I'm warning you both now- if he hurts Phoebe in any way, or double-crosses us in helping you, Wyatt, I will vanquish him permanently this time. His demonic ass will never ever again see the light of day. Are we understood?"
Both sons responded with a nod, and Chris reached over and pulled her into his arms for a quick hug.
"So, Chris, where's the entry on the Time Loop anyway?" Piper asked, all business again.
"Section 6, chapter 2, Appendix B, page 39."
"I see you've been organizing the book again, hmm?" Piper grinned at Chris. Her younger son's deep love of the Book of Shadows was always a fun topic for her.
"Just open the book." Chris' cheeks were flushed with embarrassment.
"Ah, ok. Here it is. A Time Loop.
'A Time Loop can connect two or more dimensions at one time. A Time Loop can also connect two separate souls of the same human and turn the white magic of one to the black magic of the other.'
Great. It doesn't say how to get rid of it. Typical." Piper snorted.
"I think she should start with a potion. Maybe a combination of the time-travel portal potion and Phyra's demon power stripping potion would work?" Chris suggested.
"No. The raven's blood in Phyra's potion won't mix right with the arsenic in the time-travel potion. We'll have to use something new."
"Wy, do you have any ideas? I don't know… you think a spell would work? Wyatt?" Chris glanced at his brother who was sitting at the table, his head buried in his hands.
"Wy? Are you ok?" Chris walked over to the table and touched his brother's arm.
"HOW DARE YOU! Have you forgotten, Christopher? You ask permission to speak and most certainly to touch." Wyatt's voice had turned darker, harsher. He waved his hand, and sent Chris telekinetically into the dining room wall. "And it's Lord Wyatt!"
"Wyatt! No, stop it! This isn't you. Stop!" Piper screamed, seeing her sons light blue eyes suddenly turning dark and stormy.
"Mother… how good to see you again. Alive, that is. Oh well, I guess it just means that I get the pleasure of killing you again!" Wyatt clenched his fist, holding Piper in a telekinetic choke hold.
"Wyatt, this is not you. Fight him. Dammit Wyatt! You aren't evil. Remember? You're going to hate yourself. You love your family. You love me! Wyatt! Halliwellls never give up! They never give up. Fight him! Fight him. You are stronger than this!" Chris yelled at Wyatt, unable to believe what was happening in front of him.
Wyatt gasped, and dropped his fist, releasing Piper. "Damn You Christopher. I'll be back. I guarantee it!" Wyatt's voice was again harsh and dark. Then he dropped to his knees, gasping for breath.
Chris orbed over to Piper, laying his hands over her throat. A golden light filled the room, as he healed the damage Wyatt's hold had caused.
"Chris. Chris, please, is she okay? Please, God, did I… did I kill her? Chris?" Wyatt's voice was his own again, although shaky and weak.
"No, Wy. Mom's ok. She'll talk to you herself in just a minute." Chris glanced over his shoulder at his brother.
"Wyatt! No, please tell me it's not true!" Piper cried out when she came to.
"No, no, mom. It's ok. It's our Wyatt again. The other Wyatt is gone. For now, at least. He's normal again." Chris soothed.
"Mom…I'm… I'm so..so sorry. I love you Mom. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. It was like I was possessed. I could still think, but my body wouldn't obey me. It was listening to the demon inside me. God, I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Wyatt was crying, tears running down his cheeks.
"Baby, it's alright. I'm fine. It's ok. It wasn't you that hurt me. The evil Wyatt did. I know it wasn't you. We'll fix this. I promise you, Wyatt, we'll fix this." Piper got up and hugged her oldest son, her heart breaking at the sadness in his eyes.
They hugged for a long time that way. They looked up at the sound of orbs. Leo's form took place beside Chris. "Chris! Are you ok, you're hurt!" Leo saw the bloody scrape on Chris' neck from where he had hit the candleholder on the wall. He instantly raised his hands to his son's neck, healing the spot, leaving behind nothing but tanned skin. "What happened? Did a demon attack?."
Wyatt snorted from his mother's arms. He looked at his father with a pale face and spoke solemnly. "Yeah. My demons attacked."