A Charmed Story - Part Two:
Brothers Love Through The Times
Chapter 6

"Why should I believe you? You're always tricking," Chris asked.
"Seems you really know me very well," Viviona laughed. Then she turned serious again: "Even if I love Belthazor, I can't see Cole die, 'cause I also loved him in a way. So if you take him away and make sure he'll never return..."
"Cole and Belthazor are separated again?" The brothers asked at the same time.
Viviona smirked: "Yeah, it seems so... Come on, guys, or our beloved Belthazor will find him first and end his work."
Chris and Wyatt took a quick glance at each other, and then followed her. Even if she was lying or trying to trick them out, they were running out of time, so the best they could do was just going with her.
After some minutes they reached her own lair, the place where she had the well for visions.
"There." she said, pointing at a huge stone with the shape of a big box, or better, a coffin.
Wyatt and Chris opened his eyes widely.
"He's gonna run out of oxygen!" cried Chris, rushing to the stony coffin and pushing the lid with all his strength. It wouldn't move. Wyatt helped him, but the stone was too heavy, so Chris said: "Move, Wyatt!" And he himself stepped backwards and tried to use his telekinesis.
"Hey guys, are you crazy?" Viviona had been giggling at their first human and desperate attempts of moving the lid, and she rolled her eyes as she noticed how weak they were as simple human. But when she realized they were going to use their powers, she had to stop them, so she grabbed Chris's arm.
"He's gonna die, you bitch!" cried Chris, trying to let go of her grip. Wyatt stared at her, stunned.
"No, you're gonna draw half of the Underworld, included Belthazor, if you use your powers, you fool! And not to say that you're gonna flatten his precious body!"
Chris relaxed his arm and frowned.
"What?" both brothers said at the same time.
She rolled her eyes again: "Just look at the other side of the stone, stupid boys..."
Wyatt did as she said, but Chris kept glaring at the girl.
"Chris! He's here, but he needs healing, now!" his brother said. He was still too shocked by the latest events, to do it on his own.
Chris looked at her for a second more, as she smirked, and then, he went to his brother.
"Just heal him a little bit and go!" she advised. "He'll find you!"
Wyatt was looking at his brother, as he healed Cole.
Then he stood up, and went to Viviona: "What about you? He'll know..."
Chris finished the superficial healing. Cole didn't wake up, and that was better, because he wasn't sure if he was good, or if Belthazor was inside him yet.
"Let's go," he said, looking at his brother as he grabbed Cole's arm and started to orb.
Wyatt nodded, and then, he turned to Viviona again.
"Come on, go!" she said, shivering and truly freaked out, as she felt the source around. "I can handle this on my own. I'm a demon, and I belong here."
She was really scared, anyway, Wyatt knew it. He looked at her hesitantly, then looked at the bluish orbs of his brother, and then back to her again. Without saying a single word, he grabbed her arm, and orbed out with her, at the same time as Belthazor shimmered in her lair.
"VIVIONA!" he yelled with a terrible voice, and everything exploded around him.

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"Oh you're back," Piper said as she saw her husband and her sisters orbing in.
"Yeah, I thought you may need our help," Phoebe answered, "and I think I need some distraction."
Her older sister nodded.
"So anything still to prepare?" Paige asked.
"No, we are ready," Bianca said.
Phoebe nodded: "So we have a bit of time... Leo? ... surely enough for you to tell us what the Elders just wanted from you."
Leo sighed, that wasn't the time for such a discussion.
"The Elders?" Piper asked.
Leo rolled his eyes, the sisters got him, so he started to explain: "They took me up to them to tell me that this needs to have a quick end."
"What?" Paige asked, "what needs to have a quick end?"
"We have to send Wyatt back as soon as possible. And we need take care that nobody timetravels again, 'cause we could make the whole universe collapse with that."
"That doesn't sound good," Bianca remarked.
"Yeah, but even if they want Wyatt to hurry, I do not... so... let's concentrate on our actual problem first," Leo answered.
At that moment Chris orbed in with the still unconscious Cole.
"Oh my God," Phoebe yelled and went over to him, "why didn't you heal him?"
"I did," Chris answered, "I don't know why he is still unconscious."
Leo knelt down next to Cole and took a look on him.
At the same time Wyatt and Viviona reached the attic.
"What?" Chris asked surprised when he noticed the demon.
Bianca also noticed her. And remembered her very well. And what she had done to them. What she had done with Chris. She jumped up, grasped her, took out her little dagger and put it close to her throat.
"What do you want here you fucking little bitch!" she yelled.
All that happened so fast, that the sisters couldn't even react. They were shocked. Also Wyatt was surprised about the chaos he had brought by taking her there.
"Bianca! No!" Chris yelled.
It seemed to the others that Bianca really wanted to kill that demon, and that the fact, that Chris told her to do not, hurt her badly. She glared at him furious and then turned back to the demon, staring at her full of hatred.
"Put her into the cage," Piper ordered.
But Bianca didn't move.
"Sweetie," Chris started again, trying to sound calm and confident, "she isn't the one you know. Nothing happened between us, o.k.? She just helped us to get Cole... If you want, ask Wyatt about it..."
Bianca seemed to lose part of her firmness.
The others looked at the couple full of expectation. Especially Wyatt observed them with a feeling of guilt.
"Honey, believe me, I love you, only you... just do as Piper asked you to do, please," Chris went on.
Suddenly Bianca let the demon off and shimmered her to the crystals. Then she ran out of the attic - she just needed to get out of all that - while Piper closed the magic cage.
Chris wanted to follow the girl he loved so much, but Paige held him back.
"If it's like the way I think... there was something between you and that demon in your time... right?" she whispered.
Chris looked at her with sad eyes and nodded weakly: "But... It wasn't..."
"No details please," Paige said, "I just think you should give Bianca a little time to deal with that on her own.
Chris nodded again.
"What, what happened?" Cole just woke up.
"Cole, sweetheart, are you o.k.?" Phoebe said and hugged him.
He nodded, but he wasn't... Little by little, his memories returned and that made him feel very sick.
"Is he good or evil?" Piper asked holding up her hands ready to let him explode if necessary.
"He is good," Phoebe said, "I can feel it."
"The school?" Cole asked suddenly, "is anybody in the school?"
"No, what...?" Leo asked.
But Cole interrupted him: "Belthazor knows now about it, too, ... The kids are in a great danger!"
After a while of shock, Paige asked: "Do you think he'll go there first? It's protected, against demons and warlocks and all that, he won't..."
"He WILL!" remarked Cole, making a great effort to sit down comfortably. Phoebe helped him to get a sitting position. "He's now the Source and has the reinforcement of his own old powers as Belthazor, so, technically, he's even more powerful than I was in the past, as the Source! And to top it all, he knows everything I knew about the school, so you'd better come up with some idea, or this will be the chaos..." he needed to do a great effort to talk so much, and now he was starting to breathe heavily, tiredly.
"Ok, honey..." Phoebe caressed his face, forgetting about the importance of what he had just said. There were many people there to deal with that.
"Ok," said Wyatt, still embarrassed for his clumsiness. "Then, let's go to the magic school." Chris glared at his brother, angrily, but said nothing, just kept to his side, with his arms crossed in front of his chest.
"No!" Leo exclaimed a bit too quickly. His sons turned to him confused, but the girls knew he didn't want the Elders to hurry up the return to the future, for some reason. "No, none of you will come. We need someone to watch the demon," he said pointing at Viviona, who rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry about me, I wouldn't go out even if I could, with that little bitch and her dagger pointing at me somewhere... " she sighed, and Chris rushed to her menacingly. "Shut up!" he yelled, but Leo held him back.
"It's ok, son, just stay here with Wyatt, watch her and ignore her chit chat; you know how this kind of demons acts..."
"Well enough, I assure you," he answered fiercely, still glaring at the girl with his hand clenched on a fist up.
"Ok... So let's go..." said Piper, very worried about the possibility that little Wyatt was in danger, together with the other children.
Paige nodded, and Leo looked at his sons significantly: "Promise me you'll keep relaxed, please. I need you to stay here cold-minded."
Wyatt nodded, annoyed because he wouldn't be allowed to help.
Chris relaxed, so his father would let him go: "Ok, dad... promise." But after those words, he glared at Wyatt angrily again, but said nothing.
"Hey, go without me... I'll stay with Cole," intervened Phoebe, who had been caressing Cole, and helping him to relax.
"No..." the man muttered, opening his eyes, and smiling, "they need the power of three there. I'll be fine here, with the boys."
"Yeah, I'll also take care of him, sweetie," said Viviona playfully.
Phoebe gave her a look full of hatred. "Just do what my nephew advised you to do, honey. Shut up!" she exclaimed, mad at the seer.
"Ok, Cole... I'll go, but if you need something, anything, call us, Leo will tell me and I'll be back right away."
Cole nodded. Phoebe kissed him softly, and then went with her sisters. They all, and Leo disappeared in blue orbs.
After that, Wyatt raised his eyes to meet his brother's... He felt really bad. "Chris..."
"You also shut up, Wyatt," he said coldly, and went to sit by his uncle, who preferred closing his eyes and fake his sleep. He didn't want to mess up with these brothers' argument about love.
"Chris please..." he kept begging, approaching him. "I didn't know... If you'd only have let me know what happened..."
"Nothing would have changed. And guess what, brother, you shouldn't have come!" he yelled at him.
Wyatt startled, and felt like the earth swallowed him down, deep inside.
"You're only messing everything up, don't you see?"
"I'm sorry... I had to tell you something very important, Chris... And you also came to change things, you can't blame me for changing things!"
Chris laughed sarcastically: "Oh, yes, I can."
"He can, honey..." Viviona said, enjoying the argument.
Chris turned to her mad, but continued his talk: "I can, because whatever you had to tell me, I guess it has nothing to do with me turning evil, killing everyone and destroying the world!"
Wyatt lowered his eyes and looked away, to avoid that Chris saw his tears.
"And you know what, you might have destroyed MY life right now, by bringing this... demon here!"
Wyatt felt like shit. "I'm sorry..." he just whispered, "For me it was important... I just couldn't leave her there - knowing that the source would kill her - after she helped us."
"Yeah, fine!" Chris went on yelling. "Well, then, tell me, and enjoy your victory in the future, and wish that I can have forgiven you in 20 years! Although I doubt it... because Bianca will not have forgiven me..." Chris's voice was trembling too, he held back his tears as much as he could, as Wyatt gave him his back and said nothing.
Even the seer was so immersed in the argument that she didn't bother to speak...
Cole opened his eyes and saw Wyatt shaking. He was probably sobbing in silent, as well as Chris, who wanted to go on yelling things.
"Stop it, man..." he muttered, "calm down and think a little bit before speaking so much, ok?"
He seemed to be upset. Cole was upset with him, and Chris couldn't bear that. His eyes welled up in tears.
"You'll sort out this with Bianca, sooner or later, but words like that will be there forever, boy... Just stop."
Chris didn't want to hear more. He knew he had promised to stay there, but he just couldn't. He stood up, and orbed out. He didn't know why, but he went straight to Bianca.
Viviona spoke finally, addressing at Wyatt: "Hey... I'm sorry."
Her voice sounded really concerned this time. She didn't know why, but that man had saved her life, and she had destroyed his. That should make her happy, but she wasn't at all.

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Little Wyatt lay in Leo's arms, sleeping peaceful. The sisters had brought all the kids together in the grand hall. Everyone was whispering...
Now Paige was climbing up a big chair and rose to speak: "Would you please be calm for a moment?"
Nothing happened.
She sighed and yelled: "SHUT UP!"
Suddenly everyone was silent.
Paige smiled: "That's better." Then she went on with her little speech. The sisters' plan was to send everyone back home to their parents for the next few days. They couldn't watch over everyone till the source was out there. But they also knew that they couldn't do that alone. So at first they asked for the three best students from the final class. "O.k., the rest now leave back home, till we call you to come back, alright?" Paige ended. Slowly the group of pupils started to go away. The hall emptied more and more.
Paige got down from the chair.
"Great job," Phoebe remarked.
"Yeah, you will be a great teacher," Piper said with a smile.
"Thanks," answered the youngest turning red.
"Miss Halliwell, Miss Matthews?" that was Steven. He, Nicole and Thomas had come a bit closer. "What are we supposed to do?" he asked.

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Wyatt sat down crying.
"Hey, he didn't meant it that way," Cole said, trying to make his nephew feel a bit better.
"No, he did," he answered, "and I can understand him, I just hate myself."
"Why?" Cole asked, he didn't understand what he meant.
"Because of the things I have done to him, I've seen some of them when Phoebe sent me the pictures of my other lifes. She didn't mean to, but she showed not only the good things to me... He had to suffer so much, just because of me."
Cole rose slowly, went over to his nephew and hugged him. "That wasn't you," he said, "and you will never be that person."
"But I made him suffer again," Wyatt replied.
Cole smiled: "Hey, when he isn't able to control his hormones, then it's his fault and not yours."
Wyatt smiled a bit. But he didn't feel better.
Then he looked at Cole: "Uncle, please you have to do me a favor."
"Everything," Cole said and he meant it.
"You know, you have been a good friend for me... for us, you have been a kind of psychologist... every time we needed someone to talk, you have been there... You mean a lot to us."
Cole was embarrassed by the words of his nephew. He knew he had been important for Chris in his timeline... And now he would be important for Wyatt, too? That was... well... he finally felt that he was still needed, even though he had no magical or demonic powers. And that was a good feeling.
"Oh, how funny... Cole the soul-doctor... Who would ever have thought that?" Viviona remarked laughing.
"Thanks, for that," Cole said without paying attention to the demon, "but tell me, what favor do you want from me."
"I want to tell you something, and I need that you never forget it, and when the time comes, you tell Chris about it o.k.? I mean... if he doesn't forgive me..." Wyatt said and looked down.
"Well, I'm sure he will, but, o.k... just tell me."
Wyatt nodded and sighed, then he whispered to Cole's ear so that Viviona in her cage couldn't hear him: "I came here to warn my brother. In the future, when little Chris is as old as your Chris is now, they will both go and fight a demon. One that is called Molduras. In the book it's written that he is easy to kill, but he changed, he was able to absorb the powers of both Chrises... Uncle, they died that day, both of them. Me and the sisters, we followed them as soon as we noticed they had gone, but it was too late. Your Chris died in my arms."
Cole had turned paler and paler with every word Wyatt spoke. Then he swallowed and looked at the blonde man: "If I'm right, and Chris gets over this, you should tell him that yourself. If not, I swear I will do it when you're gone."
Wyatt nodded sadly.

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Bianca sat on their spot in the little garden. Chris sighed and went closer slowly. "I'm so sorry sweetie," he said.
"Don't call me that," she answered harshly.
Chris sat down facing her: "I swear to you that nothing happened. I didn't plan to meet her... she was suddenly there and told us that she could help us to save Cole."
Bianca didn't look at him, she wasn't able to: "Are you swearing that to me as you swore that I would never have to see her face again?"
"Sweetie I understand you... But how should I know that all this would happen... she isn't banished in the Underworld here... in this time... she was in our time, but not here... Here everything is different."
"Like me and you?" she asked looking in his eyes with tears in hers.
Chris took her hands: "Yeah... there is a difference... I love you more then ever, much more."
Bianca looked away.
Chris lowered his eyes, upset.
"I love you too, Chris, and I believe you..." she whispered. "But after what happened with her, and knowing she'll be around all the time... I'm not sure if I'll be able to bear that..." she sobbed, and a tear ran down her cheek.
Chris didn't answer right away, he just extended his shivering hand towards her face, and hesitantly, he wiped the tear softly, lovingly, almost caressing her skin, afraid that she'd reject his touch.
But she didn't. On the contrary, she broke down and threw herself to his arms.
He sighed as he tried to hold back his own tears, and hugged her tightly against his chest.
"I won't be able to get through that again," she whined.
Chris embraced her even more strongly. "It won't happen again... I promise. Sweetie, I need you to believe me now... That... event, had some circumstances around; it was a terrible mistake, even if I wasn't myself... Baby, but you know I wouldn't have done it if I could have helped it. Now, I promise it won't happen again, ever. But... " he couldn't prevent his tears from welling up in his eyes, "but don't leave me alone, please. I'd die without you, you know?"
Bianca nodded, still wrapped up in his embrace. Then she raised her body and looked him in his watery eyes: "I'm sorry... I might have overreacted... But I can't just see her and stay as if nothing had ever happened."
He cupped her face and kissed her swiftly on her lips, stopping her talk, and both of them sobbing.
"She means nothing to me. She never meant anything. You're the only person I'd be able to love, and I... I couldn't go on living if you leave me..." he finally said, in a mutter.

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After some minutes of silence, Cole asked the question that was burning inside him: "But why did you come to this very moment? Why didn't you go before that... that event took place?"
Viviona was trying hard to get a clue about what they were talking about but it was impossible. "Hey, guys, that's really rude you know? Talk like that, in whispers, in front of your guests... Your moms and dads didn't teach you how to behave?"
Cole glared at her, making her roll her eyes and stop talking.
Wyatt sighed. This was being really hard for him. "I'm not sure... Well, first, I guess, because I didn't want the other Chris, the youngest, has to get through all this stuff. If I can prevent one of them from knowing this, the better for him. And let alone the time travelling thing... He doesn't know anything about this. But this Chris knows, he'd understand this better without having a headache as a reward."
Both men chuckled a bit sadly.
"O.k... and secondly?" Cole asked, knowing the second reason would be actually the most important.
"Well..." Wyatt shrugged, "after they died I was having a really hard time, o.k.? So you came, and told me about what Chris... this Chris, had done for me. That's how I got to know... and well, I guess I needed to meet him as he is like now. The Chris that saved me in the moment he did it. I sorta thought that his sight would reveal me many things about myself..." he muttered, sadly.
"And the revelations you got weren't very agreeable... But you should have known. This Chris went through much; he'll have to try hard to see your baby self, that's to say YOU, as a different person from the one he knew."
Wyatt nodded: "But don't take me wrong. I'm so happy I could meet him! I got some good rewards too, it's not all being bad, you know? He's really trying, and we spoke a lot in that cave... And yes, I know he loves me so much. He will be having a really bad time now, probably for having said those things. I know he was very upset, he didn't mean all those things... not really..."
Cole smiled at his words. He was still very pale, but little by little, as he made up his mind, he got the assurance that everything would be fixed in the future, because they still had a long time to sort them out.
"But they hurt you more than he thought they'd do, because of what you have just told me."
"Yeah..." he mumbled, "but it's not his fault... And maybe he's right, maybe I shouldn't have come. Mom told me that this was his fate, and we couldn't fight against fate, you know?"
"But you're here now, so let's do the best we can to fix all this," Cole smiled at him reassuringly.
"Hey, guys, please.. I'm bored. Have a little chat with me, at least, won't you?" Viviona interrupted them, in a whining tone.

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Belthazor was furious at that girl. She had betrayed him - nobody dares to betray the Source of all evil!
After destroying everything he could find in his way, he decided to shimmer somewhere else... He'd get his revenge on the Charmed Ones, on Cole, on the little brats who had dared to face him, and on the bitch.
He went straight to the magic school, where he could move easily now he knew many of its secrets and could counteract his magical protection.
But before making his appearance, he summoned the smoke of death, and sent it to the manor with clear orders. Kill each and every living being inside the house.

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"Shut up!" Cole yelled and looked at her very angry.
Viviona lowered her eyes and sat down, keeping silence.
Cole turned back to Wyatt: "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure," the blonde man answered.
"What about me and Phoebe in the future? I mean, in your future?"
Wyatt looked at him, not knowing what his uncle wanted to hear.
"I mean," Cole explained, "Chris told me, in his timeline we had a daughter but that timeline changed, so..."
Wyatt smiled: "I see... well... what can I say... you're a wonderful father for her... and... her sister."
Cole opened his eyes wide: "Sister?"
Wyatt nodded: "Yeah... aunt Phoebe said very often that they are both very similar to herself... But they are both very nice... Crazy but nice."
"I have two girls?" his uncle asked again.
Wyatt smiled: "Well... we have become a really large family, and still we're living all here in this house... after some enlargements."
Cole let out some air, not knowing what to say. That was all so... unbelievable.
They both kept silent for a while, then Cole asked his nephew again, remembering another problem: "When is the birthday of your brother? I mean, the little one...?"
Wyatt just wanted to tell him when the black smoke of death reappeared in front of them.
"Oh shit," he yelled.
Cole suddenly felt so much fear that he jumped up and tried to hide behind his nephew.
For a moment the cloud was just placed in the middle of the attic. Then it turned to the magical cage, to Viviona.
The smoke had no problems to overcome that cage. The men heard a terrible yell when it covered the demon.
"We have to get out of here," Cole said.
At that moment the smoke left the demon. She was dead. Wyatt looked at her paralyzed. Then the cloud moved in their direction.

(Chapter 6 written by Chrissy.W.x and Belén)