A Charmed Story - Part One:
Saving The Future Over And Over Again
Chapter 2

"W...W...What?" Phoebe said. But the other didn't notice her.
Paige was looking at Chris lying there unconscious like... like his brother? She couldn't believe it. Leo was paralyzed 'How could that be?' he thought.
"Come on Leo!" Piper screamed. She was running to Wyatt as soon as they arrived. She didn't hear anything of what Chris had said.
Leo went over to her and... stopped.
"Leo, you have to help him," Piper said.
"Paige, the crystals, get them ready," Leo said.
"What? Why?" Piper asked.
"Later," he answered. Meanwhile, Phoebe was taking care of Chris, whose shoulder was still wounded since the moment Piper had tried to blow him up.
As soon as Paige was ready, Leo healed Wyatt, and the magical cage was reinstalled.
"I'll orb me and Chris down," Paige said. Leo nodded.
"What? You put our son back to the cage and the one who wants to kill Wyatt, you bring down to us? What's going on with you?" Piper screamed very angry.
"Piper, for God's sake! Didn't you see Chris begging us to save Wyatt? Didn't you see how badly he was beaten by our precious son?" exclaimed Leo, angry.
Piper tried to say something, a little bit shocked by his reaction: "You're getting crazy, Leo..."
But she was interrupted: "And didn't you hear what he said?" Leo turned around to her sister. "Didn't you hear that, Phoebe?" he asked, more insecure than before. What if he was wrong?
But Phoebe nodded very slowly: "Piper... Chris said they're brothers. I could hear that clearly."
Piper opened her mouth to answer, but couldn't. She was wordless. That couldn't be true...

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Downstairs, Chris woke up slowly, but when he realized he was in the lounge, he sat up quickly, and muttered: "Wyatt."
At the same time he tried to orb, but Paige's hand held him down firmly. "Ok, Chris. You said something up there that I'd like to listen to again... And don't worry. Leo is healing him. After all he did... " she added a little resented.
Chris was looking at her very feeble. But he said nothing.
"Chris, please..." Paige said encouraging.
Chris was looking away. He wasn't able to stand her look any longer.
"Was that true, what you've said upstairs? Are you my... my nephew?" Paige asked still not really believing it.
A tear ran over Chris's face. Then he nodded softly.
Paige embraced him. She didn't know anything else she could do. But that was enough. Chris needed that. He needed to be close to his relatives, to his family. He began to feel better.
"But... Why didn't you tell us this before?" Paige asked.
"I couldn't... It could change the future... but now..."
Suddenly there were steps on the stairs. The others entered the living room. Piper in front of them was looking at Chris without any emotion in her face.
"O.k. I want an explanation... now!" she said, and her voice was not really friendly.
Chris stared at her startled. He had still the injure she had caused him on his shoulder, and it hurt, but it hurt even more the fact that she looked at him with so much hatred... Besides, by now she should know the truth...
"Mom.. " he murmured with a soft voice.
"Don't call me like that!" she said. "Not at least until you clarify all this. I can't believe that. I'm sure you were lying again... You cannot be my son, because I'm not pregnant and I'm not with Leo anymore! " she really doubted her own words, but she was afraid of the truth. Moreover, she couldn't bear the image of her little baby in his adult version trapped in that cage. She couldn't believe that he was evil... Not her child.
But Chris... She hadn't had the opportunity of seeing him as a baby. He might still be lying...
"Piper!" exclaimed Leo, shocked by her cruelty.
"I'm sorry I lied to you, but I can't do this right now!" Chris just looked at them and orbed out.
Piper was so mad at him that she yelled "Chris, I'm gonna blow you up a little each day."
"Piper stop. Chris is our son!"
"No he's not Leo. He's lying."
"I don't know if he's lying but there he were in so much pain. I never felt so much pain in one person, Piper." Phoebe said from the corner where she was since they came downstairs.
"We have to find him first. Then we'll talk and decide about Chris." Paige said looking at them. "He's still wounded, and he'd never hurt us. We should at least give him a chance."

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Meanwhile, Chris orbed close to the Golden Gate Bridge, he knew Leo would search for him there, so he wasn't too close, so that Leo wouldn't see him.
Chris was so deep in his thoughts that he didn't realize it was cold and raining, and the wound in his shoulder was bleeding a lot now.
A lot time had passed when Chris heard his aunt Phoebe calling him and her voice was so full of fear that he decided to go back.

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Chris orbed into the kitchen of the witches. But when he arrived, it was more like hell's kitchen. Everything was mixed up as if a bomb had exploded there.
Chris took a look around while he called out for his aunt.
"Chris... here," Phoebe said fearful.
He went around the table and then he realized her sitting in the doorway on the floor. She held Paige in her arms. She was unconscious... she was wounded.
"Oh my god, what happened here?" Chris asked while he got next to them. Within a second he had forgotten all his own pain.
Phoebe was only crying.
Chris felt Paige's pulse. She was alive. "We have to call Leo, he..."
"Chris, wait..." Phoebe said and put her hand on his arm, "Wyatt has taken him... and Piper..."
"No! No! No! that can't be!" Chris was shaking so much now, and it wasn't 'cause he was all wet. It was because of the fear of what Wyatt could do with his parents.
"Chris, we can't give up now. We need to help Paige and your parents"
Chris nodded and said "I'll be right back! I'm gonna find a whitelighter that can heal her."

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At the same time in the Underworld, Leo was looking at his son, still confused, still not understanding all that.
"Get away! You can't hurt your mother."
"Oh dad! You couldn't be more wrong! The funny thing is in the future you were the last one that saw the truth. You kept saying to everybody that I was good. That I didn't do those things."
"You are good Wyatt!" Piper couldn't stop herself.
"There is no good or evil, mommy. It's all about power, as simple as that. But enough talking. Where is Chris? This has to get a end!"

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At first Chris was too shocked to think where to go; but once he calmed down he realized what the cruel reality was like. Wyatt wasn't stupid! He had probably used the spell he used to cast on Chris himself when he hurt him in the future. That meant Paige couldn't be healed by any whitelighter, just by Wyatt himself... Because, Chris was sure, Wyatt was trying to trade him for Piper, Leo, and Paige. Thus, he closed his eyes, sensed his brother, and after taking a deep breath he orbed straight to the place where Wyatt kept their parents as prisoners.

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Piper was still shocked by her son's words... She shook her head almost without noticing it. It wasn't possible. What if he wasn't the true Wyatt? What if he was a demon that had adopted his form? After the attack, she started to feel really sorry about Chris, although she was still reluctant to accept the idea that he was her son.
"You leave him alone, Wyatt!" said Leo clenching his fits.
Wyatt laughed at his words. "It is him that doesn't leave me alone... daddy." he added in a sarcastic tone.
At that very moment, Chris orbed into the middle of the cave, but everything was too dark for him, and at first he wasn't able to see absolutely anything. He just heard the heavy steps of Wyatt, something he had come to dread a lot.
"Welcome, little brother... It was high time! "
"Wyatt, let Piper and Leo go and heal Paige."
"You think you can boss me around, brother. You forgot who is the powerful one here," and with that, Wyatt made his move to choke Chris.
"I do whatever you want. Just don't hurt them!" Chris was trying hard to say this, since he wasn't able to breathe almost anything anymore.
Wyatt's smile was large and evil now. That was when Piper realized that for worst that sounded, Wyatt was evil and he would do whatever it took to get Chris.
She yelled: "Wyatt Mathew Halliwell. What do you think you're doing?"
Wyatt softened his fist, and looked at his mother, feigning surprise. "Oh, mom... I'm just doing what you failed to do before! I'm killing the evil son! The one that came to kill a baby!" he said, in a sarcastic tone, knowing that by then, everyone had realized the truth.
With a quick movement of his hand, he made Chris fly towards him, and fall on his knees in front of his feet. "Dear mom... I came only for Chris... Just go home!" That wasn't true, since his first idea was to kill Paige, too. But now, he had thought that if his memories hadn't changed that much, if he was still evil, then he only needed to keep that this way... And he would, if he killed Chris.
"You'll make us both happy! If you don't leave me alone, I won't be able to stick to my part of the deal! I already healed Paige... Just go, and don't make me kill all of you!"
Chris was struggling to breathe and stand up, but his brother's powers were too strong for him to fight on.
"Leo," Piper said, "orb home and see what's up with Paige.
"But..."
"Do it!" she ordered
Leo orbed out.
"You don't believe me," Wyatt detected.
"No, I don't... and I still don't believe that you are evil, I can't... What happened to you?"
Wyatt was smiling, then he slammed Chris trough the cave.
His little brother crashed against the wall. Chris felt like every bone had been broken. He was too much hurt, he couldn't defend himself against him.
"What happened to you?" Piper asked again.
"I realized the truth."
"And what is it?"
"Well mommy there is no good or evil. It's all about power. And you should be proud of your little angel cause I'm the most powerful witch of history. I have all the world in my hands except my little brother over there."
With that Wyatt turned his attention to Chris, who was trying to focus and say something.
He just whispered: "Go, Piper." Then Wyatt took all his oxygen.
"Wyatt, stop! You don't love your own brother?"
"Yes I do mommy," Wyatt showed the most innocent face he could, "but he crossed me to many times and this last betrayal was too much, do you have any idea how many good demons he cost me?"
Wyatt smiled. He continued since he wasn't expecting a answer. "Too many, mommy. I tried to make him learn, but he just couldn't, he was so stuck in this good versus evil morality."
Piper looked at Chris on the floor, there was blood all over him and he was unconscious, she didn't know if he was still breathing and now her heart was totally broken, the only thing she could think about was how that cute baby could kill his own brother and worst, how could she had been so mean with her own son? Piper didn't know what to do...

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At the same time Leo reached the two other sisters. "Are you o.k.?" he asked, when he found Paige already sitting on a chair.
She nodded: "Where is Piper?"
"And where is Chris?" Phoebe asked.
"They are with Wyatt," Leo answered with a sad voice.
"What? You left them alone?" Phoebe yelled.
Paige raised from the chair: "We have to do something!"
"Yes, but what?" Leo asked. He felt hopeless about all that, about knowing his one son becoming evil and trying to kill his other son... the other son he didn't have yet... at that moment... It was all a bit too much... But they had to do something.
"Orb us to them," Phoebe ordered.
"And then?" Paige asked.
Phoebe hunched her shoulders: "We improvise... as always."

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Meanwhile in the cave, Piper was still trying to talk to Wyatt. She was trying to gain some time... some time till she had an idea about how to save them all.
"Please, Wyatt, you..."
"STOP!" he screamed, throwing a ball of fire next to Piper.
Startled, she shut up.
"I have enough of this," Wyatt said and walked over to Chris, who was still lying there on the ground without any sign of being alive.
Wyatt was looking down to him. "And I have enough of you," he whispered with anger.
He wanted to throw another ball of fire and kill Chris finally.
"NO!" Piper screamed.
In this moment the others orbed in.
Piper, without thinking any longer, blew up the rock close to Wyatt.
Since he wasn't expecting anything like that, he got a little distracted.
That was when Leo, who was just finishing to orb, ran and orbed Chris away.
When Paige saw that, she did the same with her sisters.

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But when they got home there were no signal of Chris or Leo. "What the hell..?" exclaimed Phoebe, when noticing that they hadn't orbed home.
"Hey, they may be in the magic school, what if we take a glance there? " suggested Paige, confused.
Piper shook her head with her face streaming down with tears. "They won't be there... Oh, God, I've just lost both of my sons, and my husband... Just because I was so stupid not to listen to my little baby! And so blind!" she said, sobbing.
Phoebe hugged her sister tenderly: "Hey, sweety, Wyatt is ok, right? And we'll find Leo and Chris... "
Piper shook her head again, as she saw Paige orbing to the magic school.
"No... Wyatt is not ok. He's evil, and he'll come and kill us all for his own sake. And Chris... I saw him. He was dead, he couldn't survive, I know that!" she yelled, in so much pain.
Phoebe didn't answer. Chris was really in a bad state, and the fact that they couldn't find them now gave her a bad feeling.
"I'll scry for Leo, ok?" she said, instead, "we'll find them... "
At that moment, blue orbs filled the room. It was Paige...
"They are not in the magic school... And no whitelighter or Elder there can sense Chris or Leo..." she announced, white as the snow. "They say... they say they must have gone to another plane. That, if they're still... "
"Shut up!" cried Piper, falling sad on the sofa, unable to hear what her sister was going to say. "Don't say that, Paige. I don't want to hear that. We'll find them, and Wyatt, and we'll save them all, at all costs!"

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When Wyatt realized that Chris, his parents and aunts had gone, he closed his eyes and tried to sense Chris. But he couldn't, so he thought that maybe Chris was dead; but he wanted to know for sure so he shimmered to the manor, just to find Piper crying on the couch, Phoebe trying to scry and Paige looking in the book.

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Meanwhile Leo was trying to heal Chris. He was still alive, but very bad hurt.
"It's too much," he said exhausted.
He sat down besides his son, hiding his face in his hands and cried: "What shall I do... I don't know what to do."
"Dad?" Chris whispered suddenly.
Leo looked up: "I'm here son, I'm here."
Chris was pale like a sheet of paper: "H... help them... please..."
"I wish I could son, and I wish I could help you. But I don't know where we are."
Chris turned his face racked with pain, and looked at his father.
"I don't know what happened, or where we are. But I know that you're still alive and I will do anything I can to help you," he said still crying and fondled softly his cheek. "Everything will be alright."
But Chris lost consciousness again.
Leo took a deep breath and tried to control himself. He looked around: It was a gray cold place, similar to the real world, but without life.
"Help!" cried Leo "I need help!"
He was so desperate! He stroke his son's hair and closed his eyes wishing it was all a bad dream. He needed an opportunity with his new-found son, he wanted to get to know him and love him, but he was dying and he could do nothing for him.
"Nice to see you again, Leo" said a voice at his back. A very well-known voice, one he thought he'd never hear again.

(Chapter 2 written by Chrissy.W.x, Belén, Cassi and julia)