Wyatt spun around in a circle taking in his surroundings. It was dark, and the only light was coming from a bonfire in the center of the cave in which he stood. The flames flickered which made the shadows dance across the walls. The seer stood next to him, smiling her seductive smile, and touched his arm to gain his attention. He looked at her with bewilderment written across his face, and she nodded to the furthest corner.

"Where am I?" he asked her.

"In the underworld," she replied casually.

"What? This is ridiculous; there is nobody here that can help me with anything! I'm going home!" he raged.

"Don't go," she said sweetly, "there's someone here that just can't wait to see you."

"Who?" Wyatt asked.

"Me," a man's voice said from the corner.

Wyatt focused his attention and tried to adjust his eyes to the poor lighting. "Dad?"

"Hello, Son." Leo said as he stepped forward in the light of the fire. He was dressed casually in a pair of denim jeans and a lightweight black sweater. He had his hands in his front pockets, relaxed, as he looked at his oldest son.

"This is who you said would help me?" Wyatt asked the seer. She didn't say anything, but she smiled nervously... almost as if she had second guessed her judgment.

"I have no reason to be here, and now I'm really going home," Wyatt said flatly.

"No, Wyatt, wait," Leo said stepping forward. He wasn't nearly as relaxed as he was a moment before, and a glimmer of fear flickered in his blue eyes.

"I waited for three years," Wyatt answered. "Do you honestly think that you can disappear, leave me and Chris alone without any parents, and have the audacity to thing that I would just accept you with open arms after you send a demonic seer to kidnap me into the underworld? It doesn't work that way, Leo."

"I didn't abandon you, or Chris, Wyatt. Phoebe told me to stay away-"

"Oh yeah, blame it on someone else... that's what you're good for isnt it?" Wyatt raged.

"Phoebe told me to stay away from you and Chris," Leo continued calmly, "but I couldn't. I was never far, but I stayed cloaked so that the sisters and Victor wouldn't find out. I didn't know what they would do if they found out. I'm sorry, I should have showed myself to you, but I was afraid of them hiding you from me. I'm sorry," Leo said. He had a big long speech planned to make up for everything that he had done wrong, but at the sight of his eldest son before him his mind drew a blank.

Wyatt stood before his father with a million things running through his mind. He knew that Phoebe had threatened Leo, but in his heart he knew that his father would never truly abandon him and his brother. But after three years, both he and Chris had given up hope of ever seeing their father again. Now, here he was standing before him, offering an olive branch. Wyatt looked to his side instinctively for Chris, but his heart dropped when the reality of his younger brother not being by his side hit him.

"So you're sorry and you want to be Daddy again now that Chris and I are grown?" Wyatt asked Leo.

"Yes! I'm not asking for forgiveness right now because I know that is too much to ask for. I'm just asking for a chance to gain your trust again," Leo replied, hope lacing every word.

"Oh I see," Wyatt said thoughtfully. "If that's the case, then why didn't' you have your girlfriend here bring Chris too?"

"She was supposed to," Leo said shooting the seer a look. "Why didn't you bring my other son?"

"Because," she answered, moving a little further behind the bonfire.

"Because why?" Leo asked as the veins in his neck started to pulse. Wyatt looked from the woman to his father, sensing something very bad was about to happen.

"Because we told her not to," a voice said from the shadows behind Wyatt. Wyatt spun around and he was confronted with Alpha, Gamma, and Omega... the three head Avatars. Wyatt tried to orb away, but for some reason he felt powerless. His arms felt like concrete as he tried to lift the sword above his head to fight them off. Gamma and Omega quickly stepped forward, each grabbing one of his shoulders and the three of them disappeared.

"NO!" Leo shouted.

"Leo," Alpha said calmly, "Come back to us. We have your oldest son, and he is the key to our goal. The goal that all of us have been waiting for. Come back to us, be a part of his training."

"Bring my son back here, NOW!" Leo raged.

"I'm afraid we can't do that, but you'll see him soon. Perhaps he will be able to persuade you to come back." With that Alpha shimmered away.

Leo panicked. His plan was to retrieve his sons, and to teach Wyatt to use Excalibur for good. He should have known that they would sense what happened, or that the Seer would betray him.

"You!" Leo said through his teeth. "I will destroy you."

"No," the Seer said. "Please don't. I had to, they are more powerful than I am. They were going to kill me!"

"I'm going to kill you if you don't figure out a way to get my son back," Leo told her.

"I can't," she said sadly. "But perhaps the sisters can."

"I told you to stay away from this family!" Phoebe screamed.

"Would you just listen to me?" Leo pleaded.

"You don't have anything to say worth listening to!" Phoebe replied. "PAIGE!"

"What's going on? What the hell are you doing here?" Paige asked as she orbed in a second later.

"Would you guys just listen?" Leo asked the sisters.

"I already told you, there is NOTHING to say," Phoebe repeated.

"Yeah really! You abandon those boys for three years and now you waltz in here thinking you have some sort of say?" Paige accused.

"Wyatt has Excalibur." Leo blurted.

"That's impossible, he put it back in the stone years ago and promised never to touch it again," Paige replied, but her voice shook with anxiety.

"No, it's true." Chris said entering the room. "Some lady that called herself a seer showed up in the attic back at the manor and convinced him to pull it out, and then she took him away."

Phoebe felt all the rage toward Leo melt away and she reached behind her to find a stable something to hold onto. Her knees went weak and the color drained from her face. She felt faint and tried to steady herself on the back of the recliner that she stood in front of.

"How did the seer get into the manor? I put a protection on it," Paige said completely bewildered.

"I helped her," Leo admitted.

"What do you mean you helped her?" Paige asked.

"I sent her to get Wyatt to pull the sword, and then she was supposed to bring him back to me so that I could train him... and show him how to use it for good."

"Okay, first of all, what is HE doing here?" Chris asked referring to his father. "Second off, why does everyone have such an issue with Wyatt having the sword when my mother came back from her grave to give it to him? And most importantly, where the HELL is my brother?"

"The Avatars took him," Leo answered. "I came here for help to find him."

"WHAT!" Paige, Phoebe, and Chris all exclaimed at once.

"I'm going to call Kyle and have him send the girls to Magic School where they'll be safe. Chris, you should probably go too," Paige said as she excused herself from the room.

"I'm not going anywhere until I find my brother," Chris replied defiantly.

"That's why I'm here, son," Leo replied placing his hand on Chris's shoulder.

Chris reeled back away from Leo's touch. The very thought of having him near him, sharing the same oxygen, made his skin crawl. Chris hadn't seen nor heard from his father in over three years, and when he finally does show it's to send Wyatt off to the Avatars? Of course, Leo didn't give a crap about him because Wyatt was the special one, the only one their father cared about.

"Don't touch me," Chris murmured.

"Leo, this is a family affair. We'll take care of it, thank you for the heads up," Phoebe told him coldly.

"I AM family Phoebe, Wyatt is my son and I got him into this. I want to help," he answered.

"I think you've done enough," Chris told him.

The comment hurt Leo. He had not intended for things to go this wrong, and he had no idea that the Avatars were waiting for him to make his move to save Wyatt from becoming evil. In his ever lasting quest to save both of his sons, he inadvertently sent one off to the destiny he was trying to prevent, and unintentionally drove the other one away. The second chance that he had hoped for with Chris was now too far gone and he felt his heart shattering into a thousand different pieces.

"Fine, I'll go after him myself," Leo answered.

"They'll kill you," Chris told him.

"Don't worry, I'll be alright," Leo said, hoping that he still had some sort of chance with his youngest child.

"I'm not worried, I'm just stating a fact. You'll probably screw this up just like you did protecting mom and Wyatt."

"I see you didn't mention yourself there," Leo responded smiling ever so slightly.

"How could you have screwed anything up with me? You never made that much of an effort," Christ replied holding his fathers stare.

"That's because I knew that you wouldn't need me. I knew that you would be alright and grow into a strong, centered, good man," Leo replied softly.

"You need to go, Leo." Phoebe said. "Chris, Paige, and I have a lot of talking to do."

"Dad," Chris cried just as Leo started to orb away.

"Yeah?" Leo asked.

"Just, be careful, okay?"

Leo smiled and nodded. When he heard the warning uttered from the lips of his youngest son, he felt a sense of hope overcome him. Perhaps all the suffering that he had put his family through may have been worth something, and perhaps he could still save both of his sons.

"Listen to your aunts, I won't be far I promise," Leo told Chris as he orbed away.

Phoebe watched the exchange with a mixture of sorrow and hope. She wondered if Leo had changed, and if he was actually redeemable. She supposed only time would tell, because she knew that they were in for a huge battle if they didn't find Wyatt soon. She walked around to the other side of the recliner and sat down with a heavy heart. She had so many things that she wanted to tell Chris, but she and Paige had promised Piper that they wouldn't tell him what had happened in the year before he was born. She looked up as Paige walked back in the room.

"Okay, Kyle sent the girls to Magic School and he said to tell you whatever we need he'll do," Paige told her.

"Paige, Chris, sit down," Phoebe said rubbing her temples. "We need to talk."

"Phoebe, you're not going to-" Paige started.

"Yes, I am Paige. Let me be the big sister, I know what I'm doing. We have to," Phoebe said. Her voice was void of emotion, and her face was still pale. Chris took a seat next to Paige and looked on at his older aunt.

"Chris, you asked why it was such a big deal that Wyatt had Excalibur after your mom came back from the grave to give it to him... and I'm going to tell you," she started.

"Phoebe!" Paige exclaimed.

"Trust me Paige, it's for the best. Anyway Chris, we can't figure out WHY she did that. Excalibur is dangerous, very dangerous. It nearly destroyed your mother, and we know for a fact that it can destroy Wyatt too. A very long time ago, before you were born the Lady of Avalon went to your mother for help. She was in danger because some demons were after the sword, and the Lady was killed. Before she died she gave the sword to your mom, and told her to keep it safe. A parade of magical creatures showed up hoping to be named the next King, but the only person that was able to pull it from the stone was your mom. Even though Piper was everything good, she was consumed by the power of the sword, and she did some pretty horrible things. Later, we figured out that the sword was meant for Wyatt, not Piper, and that's why she was so taken by the power," Phoebe told her nephew.

"Well, if it was meant for Wyatt, then he won't be consumed by the power. Why is it such a big deal?" Chris asked defensively.

"Something that changed our lives forever happened. Someone from the future came to us and gave us a warning that Wyatt had turned evil in the future, and that he had destroyed everything good that we, the Charmed Ones, had fought for. We thought that we had destroyed the threat before you were born, but we all decided to keep Excalibur from Wyatt just in case," Phoebe continued.

"Wyatt is not going to turn evil," Chris said.

"We didn't believe that either," Paige told him. "But we also didn't believe that your father could turn evil either."

"My dad may not have been around much, but he's not evil," Chris said, but he was unsure of himself.

"He wasn't good either Chris. He used to be our whitelighter, he used to be an angel, and then he joined the Avatars and it changed him from what he used to be. He quit trying to protect the innocent, and he was consumed with this idea of what the world could be without good or evil. It was unnatural," Phoebe told him.

"You guys joined the Avatars too," Chris reminded them.

"We know that Chris, but we left, and that is even more reason for us to be worried about them having Wyatt. We know how persuasive they can be," Paige told him firmly.