A Charmed Story - Part Two:
Brothers Love Through The Times
Chapter 5

They all were now in the magic school agian. Leo had already started to heal Chris.
"Thanks dad," he whispered with a sad smile.
Bianca went over to him, hugged him and kissed him, still crying. "Oh, baby!"
"I can't," Piper said, "I can't believe that. What happened!"
Phoebe was crying hard now and her sobs could be heard in the whole room. Paige hugged her and tried to make her feel comfortable.
"It was my fault. I wrote a spell, to make Wyatt evil for a short time, so he could get us both out of the cave. When we were out of the cave he was supposed to turn good again. I didn't thought about Cole turning evil...I used the wrong words I guess."
"Wrong words! Wyatt would turn evil! Just for a short time! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!" Phoebe cried out and ran to Chris. Her fist was clenched ready to hit Chris's chest. She stroke out and hit him. Chris didn't detain her from doing that. He deserved it and he knew that his aunt was out of control. He wanted to make her feel better and the pain she gave him was nothing against the pain he had caused.
"Stop it! Phoebe!" Leo and Paige held her back.
"It's your fault! Your FAULT!"
Chris lowered his head.
"I finally had him back! We've been through so much! so much..." she broke down.
"Leo. Take her out. She should get some rest," Paige sent them both away.
Bianca lifted Chris's chin with her hand, slowly and gently. "Honey. She didn't mean that. You know that."
His eyes were moisty and he was holding back his tears. He nodded.
"O.k. Piper, sit down," Paige helped her sister, who was in a state of shock.
"Now you," she turned to Chris, "sit down and tell us why the spell did work that way. We have to reverse it..."
"When I and Wyatt...we were supposed to leave the cave and then...well, the spell should have turned him, when we both were out of the cave..." He couldn't find the words.
"We were out of the cave.." Paige walked around, "so that means if you, Wyatt and Cole are out of the cave the spell should have stopped working and everyone should be good again!"
"Yeah."
"Ok. You're out of the Underworld and the other two are still down there. We just have to get them out of there and the spell should stop working."
"How do we get them up here?" Piper interpolated in the discussion. "They are both too strong for us. Who knows what they're doing now down there... how do we get them up here?"
"We'll find a way, sweetie, don't worry," Paige said, thinking about what her sister had just said.
"No, that's wrong," Chris yelled, "the spell was meant to last till we were out of that cave, not out of the Underworld. And we ARE out of that cave."
"Right..." Piper said tired, "I'd forgotten that..."
"But why are they still evil?" Leo asked, who had just re-entered.
Chris sighed and shook his head, thinking hard about that. Then he looked up again: "That's it!"
"What's it?" Bianca asked.
"Cole and Belthazor are mixed together again, they are one person. That's why he is still evil."
"Yeah, that's possible... But what about Wyatt?" Paige remarked.
"The fact that Cole is now evil can have changed something in his life that made him change," Leo suggested.
"But what can that be, do you think he will..." Piper said starting to panic.
Paige and Bianca tried to calm her down while she was arguing with Leo.
Chris stood a bit aside watching them. He felt very sick it was all his fault again. He wished he could change all this. A tear ran down his face. He was desperate. If there were only one way to show his brother...
Suddenly he had an idea. 'There is a way,' he thought.
The others were still busy with their discussion. Quietly Chris left the room. No one noticed that he did.

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Chris went over to the little room where Phoebe was lying on a sofa.
"What the hell do you want?" she asked tired and hopeless.
"Maybe I know a way to turn everything back... But I need your help," Chris said, and went closer to her.
"Chris, even if you're my nephew... Get sit on a track, o.k.?"
"Phoebe, please. You're the only one that can do that... hopefully. You're the only one who can turn Wyatt. And if we get him, we'll be able to separate Cole and Belthazor again. And then we kill the demon once and for all... And all will be good again."
"And if not? Who cares about all that... Life is just a big shit!" she said frustrated.
"Well... if not... You know, Cole knows about this place...!" Chris remarked.
Phoebe raised to the half. She hadn't thought about that before. Nor the other sisters. The new source was a big danger for the school, and for all the kids there.
"O.k., we will talk to the others, we..." Phoebe stood up.
"No," Chris said, "they won't agree with my plan."
"So, what is your plan?"

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Ten minutes later Chris was trying to sense his brother. Even if it was hard to find him in the Underworld, he knew he could do it. He was his brother, and, while they were in that cave, he had noticed that the bond between them was much stronger then he thought it could ever be.
He and Phoebe were in the attic. It seemed that the others hadn't missed them yet.
"Got him," Chris said after a short while. Then he rose and looked at his aunt: "How do you feel now, after I cast the spell?"
"Same as before... Do you think that now I have these powers you talked about...?" she asked skeptical.
"I hope so. You had this power in my time, before you..." he made a pause and then skipped what he was going to say, "so after having cast the spell you should have it now." Chris went over to her. "Ready?" he asked.
She nodded. And he orbed them both to the Underworld.

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They orbed into a dark tunnel. Without saying any word, Chris went trough it and his aunt followed him. The tunnel ended in a big cave, where his brother was sitting on the ground, wounded very badly. There was no sight of Cole.
Chris told her aunt to stay in the tunnel, while he stepped inside the cave.
Wyatt turned around. "You shouldn't have come," he rose and attacked his brother with an energy ball.
But Chris was prepared for that... this time. He sent out a flash that hit Wyatt and let him break down.
"Phoebe, now!" Chris yelled.
Phoebe ran over to Wyatt who was sitting on the ground, breathing heavily and unable to defend himself. She knelt in front of him and put her hands on his temporal. Then she looked at Chris.
"I know you can do this Phoebe," he said.
She nodded and closed her eyes.
At that moment Wyatt was flooded over with pictures. Pictures of him, of his brother, his cousin who he didn't even know. Those pictures were his memories, or better those which Phoebe and the others had seen a few days ago. Memories which were never real in this way, but memories which were good. Phoebe tried to send him telepathically all the good things she had seen in the mind of his other version. Chris believed, when those things had turned Wyatt to be good once before, they could do it also now.
The blonde man saw all these pictures, not knowing what happened to him, but then there was one, one that he caught, and he didn't want to let go again. And that picture opened in him the door to his own good soul.
Chris was watching them both while Phoebe was doing that. It only took a few seconds, then she sat down next to him. She was tired, it had taken all her energies.
Wyatt was breathing heavily again. Shy, like a little kid he looked around. Then he noticed his brother: "Chris?"
Chris went a bit closer, still watchful for any attack by him.
"Chris, what the hell happened to me?" Wyatt asked.
"Did it work?" Chris asked Phoebe.
The witch looked at her nephew and tried to sense his feelings. "He is confused," she said, "but there is no evil."
"Evil?" Wyatt asked, then looked at Chris, "The spell... did it..." He stopped, looking down to the ground. He started to remember what happened just a few minutes ago. "Oh God, what have I done," he whispered.
Chris sat down beside him and hugged him: "Don't worry, you're alright again, you're good again, that's all that matters."

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Meanwhile in the magic school, Leo and the sisters were still discussing. Bianca sat down on a chair taking a moment to relax. It was all a little to much for here... and she could imagine how hard this was being for her love.
She looked around. She couldn't see him, she hadn't noticed that he had gone out. She stood up again and rose her voice: "Hey, were is Chris?"
The others looked at her with surprise.

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Chris was still hugging him. "Man, our spell sucked, but this was great!" he laughed, happy that his plan worked. 'Now we just have to save uncle Cole,' he thought and rolled his eyes. 'Our family is not that easy to handle.'
"Phoebe?" Wyatt asked fearful. He saw his aunt lying on the floor.
Chris looked up. "Don't worry brother. She is just exhausted. It took too much I think, but she'll be alright," his brother calmed him down.
Chris helped his brother to stand up. Wyatt groaned in pain. He didn't look good at all. The fight with the source seemed to be more horrifying than he thought it would be. His strong body was full with bloody cuts and bruises. His arm seemed to be broken too.
Chris grabbed the hand of his aunt. "You'll tell us everything later ok?" he said, when he saw his big brother trying to tell him something but struggling with the pain and the words. "First we have to go out of here. Then I heal you and then we've time to talk." He orbed them all out of the cave, back to the others.

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"What?" Piper asked. Everyone looked around. They didn't see him. "Chris?" Piper called edgy.
Paige and Leo tried to sense him.
"I think he must be at home," Page said.
"Or has been," Leo added. "So we should go there" Paige ordered and so they orbed home.
But there was no sign of Chris, either.
"Oh no! I bet he wants to save Wyatt." Leo said.
"On his own! Well, I hope he gets back in one piece." Paige said rakish.
"Paige!"
The witch-whitelighter jerked when she heard the pissed voice of her sister.
Suddenly they heard a: "She's right."
It was Chris. They first heard his voice, then they saw orbs and finally all the three appeared.
Wyatt was badly injured and Phoebe had passed out.
"Chris!"
"Phoebe!"
"Wyatt!"
Everyone was yelling a name. Total confusion and chaos.
Leo jumped to Wyatt and healed him, while Paige and Piper got to Phoebe and tried to wake her up. Bianca grabbed the hand of her fiancé and hugged him.
"What happened? Wyatt, son, you're ok!" Piper asked when Leo had finished the healing.
He looked at his mom: "Yeah. I am. How's Phoebe?"
"Leo is healing her. What happened down there?" His mother looked at him with her big brown eyes.
"Did it work?" a weak Phoebe asked.
Chris sat down beside her and caressed her hair.
"Yeah." he smiled. "One down, one to go."
That statement conjured a smile on her face.
"I'm sorry about..."
"No, don't. It's ok."
"What worked?" Paige asked. She couldn't get the grip.
Chris told them what he thought about and what he and Phoebe had done while all the others were discussing.
"Wow..." Paiges voice was very astonished. "What turned you exactly?"
"Paige!" now it was Leo who said that.
"What? I just want to know."
"I saw a moment of my other life... A moment I will surely never forget." Tears were in Wyatt's eyes now.
"Doesn't look to me like it was a happy moment."
Wyatt shook the head: "No, it wasn't. I saw myself dying while trying to save my brother."
Chris opened his mouth but Piper cut him off: "Don't worry, that's something that you prevented, too. It will not happen to you."
Wyatt meanwhile remembered more and more of his own past, and especially that moment that caused all this. The moment why he was there, in the past. And that made him feel even more sick.
"What about Cole?" Phoebe asked after a few minutes of silence.
Everybody was watching Wyatt, again, who now started to walk around nervously.
"What happened down there?" Chris asked his brother. He couldn't stand the tension in the room.
"Well. I was evil...Me and the uncle... .the source... we had a fight," he stopped and took a deep breath.

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Viviona knelt by the still body of Cole Turner, because now, that was the shape the demon had. He was covered with injuries and scratches, and didn't seem to be breathing.
"Come on," she said in an icy and unemotional tone. "I liked this aspect much more! I'm sorry to tell you, but Belthazor is not so... attractive."
A huge reddish and black demon was pacing behind her: "I'm sorry if I'm too disagreeable for you, little bitch, but this is the only thing left. Take it or leave it. And if you leave it... " Belthazor smirked: "Let me know, I'll know what to do with you."
Viviona sighed resignated: "Ok, ok... don't be cross at me..." She faked the tone of a little girl. "I can live with that too... It's just I don't understand why you... did this!" she pointed at Cole's body as she pronounced the last words.
Belthazor glared at him: "I thought he had really turned. But he was fighting me so strongly I couldn't keep up with the rhythm of that other witch... Just look at his injuries! We both would have died! Besides, what does it matter now? I retained all his powers, now I'm the source... I don't really need my human part anymore. Not a corrupted one."
Viviona giggled. "The witch must be dead by now, anyway."
Belthazor nodded: "Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It was a bit of a luck that he didn't see me getting out of that body. He just thought he had killed him."
Viviona now laughed out loud: "And he fainted, poor little brat! He'll be a good present for any demon down here..."
"We have to get rid of that body."
"He's not dead yet... feel his breath..." she said, approaching her own mouth to Cole's, and getting a strong kick on her stomach, a present of Belthazor. She screamed in pain.
"I said, we'll have to get rid of it, NOW!"

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"What?" Phoebe felt sick. Paige and Piper helped her to sit down.
"What did YOU just did? You killed Cole?" her voice was too feeble. She wanted to hit him as she had hit Chris before, but she couldn't even stand. She broke down, and cried once again that day.
Chris and Bianca hugged each other, pensive.
"He cannot be dead..." said Wyatt weakly. "I mean, I thought I had killed him, but there are many memories in me, and they're not blurred. I don't know what happened exactly because I... I must have fainted."
Chris stared at his brother, heartbroken: "I'll go there, find Cole and bring him back."
"You can't do that, he's evil... " Leo was shaking his head.
"Phoebe can do the same with him, if he's weak now, he won't fight. We need to save him, dad!"
"But you can't go alone!"
"I can, as much as you can. No, I have even more powers than you dad, don't forget. Half witch, half Elder, but with all the Elder-powers. I can defend myself... Hey, look, I'll just heal him enough not to let him die, if he's really dying, and then, I'll bring him here. We can set a cage of crystals or something... Mom and Bianca, prepare the cage. Dad, go the magic school, and warn them that a new danger is coming. If I can't find him, maybe he'll find a way to enter the school... Little Wyatt is there. Paige, just stay with Phoebe."
"What about me?" asked Wyatt.
Chris looked at him and saw his pain for what he had done.
"Hey... you should stay... You need to reorganize your mind, and have a rest."
Wyatt shook his head: "I can't do that, after all this mess. I'm as guilty as you are, or even more. We both should go."
Chris nodded pensive, slowly. The others agreed, not very happy, but knowing that this was a good idea.
"Be careful, someone could use the smoke against you, and this time, with murderous intentions..." advised Bianca before they disappeared in bluish orbs.

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Leo orbed directly to the magic school. Well, he thought he did... But when he rematerialized he was at the Elder Council.
"Why have you done this?" he asked angrily. "I have to go to the school and warm them. There..."
"We know that," one of the other Elders said.
"So why did you bring me here?" Leo asked again.
"Because there is a problem you should be informed about."
Leo frowned: "So... then tell me, but please hurry."
Another Elder rose to speak: "We noticed that the adult version of your son is back in our time. He is here, because he wants to save Chris from death."
Leo looked shocked, even if he had thought something like that. What else could have been a reason for his other son to come back as to save his brother who he seemed to love so much...
"Leo, we know that it's hard to lose someone," the Elder went on, "but they can't run through the times as they please... They are changing too much, every time they did."
Leo nodded.
"We can't change that he is here now, but you have to send him back as soon as possible. And then make sure no one else of that family will ever go to the past time again. You got it? Never! Or the whole universe will collapse one day."
Leo nodded again. He knew they were right, but this moment he was worried about other things. "So can I go now?" he asked finally.
The Elders nodded, and Leo orbed away.

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"How will we find him?" Wyatt asked.
Chris wasn't looking at him, he was just trying to find a trace of Cole at the place were minutes before the battle had taken place.
"You know, Cole told me a lot, in my timeline, where you were evil. He told me where to hide down here."
"So was I also evil against you?" Wyatt asked with a low voice.
Chris smiled, he couldn't help smiling: "You were evil against everyone."
Wyatt swallowed. Chris knew that he had hurt him.
"I'm sorry," the blonde witch said.
"You don't have to," his brother answered.
"I know a few things from what Phoebe has shown to me," Wyatt replied.
Chris looked at him: "Yeah, but those weren't your memories. Those came from another version of you."
"I know," Wyatt smiled and nodded. "And anyway... I have my own memories back already... but still... I'm sorry."
"Please don't... That wouldn't be right... that wasn't you," His brother told him again. Wyatt nodded.
Chris turned around and then pointed at a tunnel. "I think this way must be the right one."
So they went into the tunnel.
"Hey, your own memories," Chris asked, "are they all good?"
Wyatt smiled sadly: "Yeah, except one."

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The Phoenix and the witch were in the attic. They set the crystals, some potions and spells. They were armed! Now both sat down and got some rest.
"You ok?" Piper asked. She only could imagine what the girl's feelings were like.
"Yeah."
"That didn't sound convincing."
"Well...my fiancé is on a nearly-suicide mission... again. I should be used to this, especially in this family, shouldn't I?"
"It's not easy to be in a relationship at all, but our family tends to... complicate things like that."
Bianca smiled. "That's understatedable... Well. I hope they come back safe."
"Don't worry. We've handled much worse things than that, believe me. Much worse..."
Piper's eyes met Bianca's dark ones. She saw that the girl was going through horrible things. This eyes weren't the eyes of a young careless girl. These were the ones of a woman who had seen more than anyone else.
Piper touched her hand. "Don't worry. Our boys will be back, safe, with Cole." Both women tried to comfort and give hope to each other.

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Phoebe and Paige, who had returned to the magic school short after Leo was gone, tried not to think about the boys or Cole.
"You ok?" Paige asked, as Piper did nearly at the same time.
Phoebe started laughing. "My God. No. Of course not. My nephews are trying to save the love of my life from staying evil...oh and they have to watch themselves constantly because they could turn evil too...no, nothing's ok."
"You know we'll find a way to save everyone and to send Wyatt back in a constantly good future."
"How do you do that?" The empath wanted to know from her sister.
"What?"
"You're the last sister standing. All the time. You come up with plans, you have a cool head and you don't lose your faith or trust...how can you be so strong?"
"Maybe because I'm not that involved."
"Bullshit. You love Chris, Wyatt and Cole like we do."
Paige raised her eyebrows and lightened the situation up with a dry: "Oh, didn't know I had desires for Cole."
Phoebe chuckled. "You know what I mean. You can't tell us that you're not involved."
"I just have to stay calm. For you. Someone has to keep everything here running," she said the last sentence with a little tiredness and congestion in her voice.
"I'm sorry, honey, that we put it all on you."
"It's ok."

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Leo finally reached the magic school. He saw Phoebe and Paige sitting close to each other, talking with serious faces.
"Hey girls."
Both women looked up.
"Leo. What's going on? Thought you already had been here..." Paige said.
"The Elders talked to me, but that's not so important now. Any sign of the boys?"
"No. But I think we all should go with Piper. If the plan works they'll show up there."
So they orbed back to the manor.

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"Have you got a plan, what will we do when we find him?" Wyatt asked all of a sudden.
Chris stopped: "What do you mean?"
"I mean, we're both powerful... we are nearly equal... but Cole is now the source of all evil. So how could we beat him? He's more powerful than you and me together I think," Wyatt explained his thoughts.
Chris wanted to answer something when a woman shimmered in.
"Viviona," Chris said surprised.
"You know me?" she asked, not less surprised than him.
"Chris, what's going on here?" his brother asked.
"Well... actually I'm from the future," Chris explained to the demon, "there we met several times."
Viviona frowned, but she felt his words were the truth.
"So your friends were demons?" Wyatt asked a bit sarcastic. But when Chris looked at him very strange and seriously he stopped talking.
"What do you want?" Chris asked the demon.
"Well... I think you want Cole... And I could help you to get him."

(Chapter 5 written by Dark Angel, Chrissy.W.x and Belén)