Wyatt's flashback to Chris' fourteenth birthday:
Wyatt pushed open the front door and walked in followed by his father, Uncles, Aunts and cousins. He'd dragged them all home three hours after they'd left. He was kicking himself, he couldn't believe that he'd forgotten his own brother's fourteenth birthday, they all had, except for his mother.
"Mum! Chris!" He called, wondering where they had gone. The jeep was still in the drive and he was pretty sure that they wouldn't have orbed because Kit Halliwell wasn't that into his powers unless of course the two of them were demon hunting.
"Piper?" Paige Montana and Phoebe Halliwell-Dean called. Something deep down inside told them something was wrong.
"Mum? Chris?" Wyatt called again, voice rising slightly in panic, "This isn't funny!"
"Oh god." Was the collective moan from his cousins, "Look down, is that…"
The Twice blessed looked down at the carpet and saw the crimson trail leading to the next room, gulping, he finished their sentence, "Blood." Then they ran into the next room.
The sight they beheld made them all nauseous, there lay Piper Halliwell and her youngest son; on his side with his left arm draped protectively over his mother's body, the two of them encircled in a crusty crimson pool.
Leo Wyatt couldn't believe what he was seeing, he pushed past his son and ran to his wife's side. Once there he moved Chris' arm out of the way and soon Christopher Halliwell became invisible to everyone including Wyatt.
It took them twenty minutes to come to the conclusion that was already niggling in the back of their minds; Piper Halliwell was dead. Leo just sat there holding his wife's body close to him rocking back and forth. All the others were either just sitting or standing around crying and talking in hushed whispers amongst themselves.
Wyatt was standing there staring off into space when he snapped violently back into reality, where the hell was Chris? His heart was pounding in his ears, he did not want to lose Chris too.
"Where's Chris?" He asked softly.
Nobody answered let alone looked at him, frustrated and scared he shouted, "Where the hell is Chris?" They all shook their heads.
"He's probably dead too." Prue Halliwell-Dean murmured.
"No, Chris wouldn't, he couldn't." Melinda Montana snapped.
"What's it matter anyway?" Leo said bitterly.
"It matters because he's my brother!" Wyatt shouted with tears in his eyes, "And he's your god damn son!"
Wyatt noticed one of Chris' big black combat boots poking out from behind his father.
"Oh God."
He ran to Chris' side, he blanched at the sight of his little brother's ghost like appearance, the brunette's face seemed to be the purest shade of white and his lips were crystal blue. Wyatt reached out and touched his hand and jumped, they were like ice. He ripped open Chris' already destroyed shirt and gasped, aside from where he was wounded his whole body was pure white.
"Chris?" he said softly, "Can you hear me?" He didn't respond and Wyatt's fear grew when he saw two Darklighter arrows poking through his shoulder.
"Someone who's not part Whitelighter get your ass here now!" he shouted.
Richard Montana ran to his side, "What do you want me to do?"
Looking down he saw the arrows, wrapping his hands around the arrows he took a moment and pulled them through. Chris' body jerked slightly and he let out a soft moan.
"He's still alive!" Wyatt cried.
Wyatt pulled Chris up, "Dad help me!" He said, frantically trying to heal his brother.
"Why should we bother?" Leo said bitterly.
"Dad!" Wyatt growled, "Chris is alive!"
Leo, Paige and Melinda ran to Chris and they began to heal him. The damage was so extensive it took half an hour for the four of them to heal him. The colour slowly returned to his skin and Chris shot up, "Mum?"
Wyatt pulled Chris into him, "Shh…"
But Chris saw past his father and saw his mother's face, "No! No! No!" He writhed in Wyatt's arms, "Let me go!"
"Chris, she's dead." Wyatt choked out.
"No! She promised she wouldn't leave me! You're a liar!" He telekinetically pushed Wyatt away from him and ran to Piper's body.
"Did you heal her?" He asked, turning angrily to face them, "Did you even try?"
"Chris…"
He scrambled to his feet, "If you hadn't have forgotten my birthday you would have been here! You would have saved her!"
"You can't blame this on us, it was an accident."
"Oh the hell I can't Leo. If you had have kept your promise! If you had have actually been listening to me…"
"What do you mean listening?"
"I screamed for you and Wy! Screamed and screamed but nobody came, Mum knew that you wouldn't come. I was stupid to enough to believe you would."
Wyatt just sat there the world was crashing down around his ears he had lost his mother and the other most important person in his life was screaming at him. He hadn't heard him. Nobody had heard Chris and they'd let them all down.
A thunderstorm started outside and Chris Halliwell orbed out cloaking his presence it took them five hours to find that Chris had orbed to the bridge, half way to his grandfather's then walked the rest of the way. And had spent the rest of the night curled in his grandfather's arms.
