A/N Hey everybody! I decided to do another chapter and i will do another couple of chapters after this one! Thanks to everyone that reviewed! Sorry this chapter is short but it's really only a foundation for the other chaptersand is also very important (you'll see why!) Hope ya enjoy!
On the car ride home everyone was silent, too deep in their own thoughts. Victor had definitely lightened up the funeral but it didn't mean it was any less upsetting. Leo had wished he could have said something, now as he sat in the car but at the time he couldn't have trusted himself to speak. Both his sons were gone and the feeling of sadness and despair that filled him was almost unbearable. He wished on the night of the accident he had stopped them taking that car ride. He had had the chance but the thought of something happening to them that night hadn't even crossed his mind at all at the time. As Leo stared out of the window of the car he couldn't stop thinking it had been his fault. He was the one that had persuaded them to take the car in the first place.
Flashback
"Where are you two going?" Leo asked his two sons as they put on their coats.
"We're going to see a friend over on the other side of the city." answered Wyatt.
"Are you taking the car?" Leo asked.
"No we're orbing of course!" answered Chris looking at him like he was stupid.
"Is your friend a witch?"
"No."
"Well do they know your secret?"
"No."
"Well then you can't orb!" exclaimed Leo.
"Why not!" asked Chris
"Magic exposure!"
"Oh come on dad!" Chris pleaded.
"No Chris! You can't risk it!"
Chris opened his mouth to argue but Wyatt cut him off.
"Look it's okay Chris, we'll just take my car. It won't take that long." He said.
"Yeah that would be best." said Leo.
Chris groaned reluctantly but nodded.
"Come on we better get going." said Wyatt as he grabbed his car keys.
"Be careful!" said Piper who had just came through from the kitchen.
"We'll be fine mom! A bit of rain and wind never killed anyone!" said Chris, smiling at her.
"Okay, I love you!" Piper called as they opened the door
"Love you too!" Chris and Wyatt chorused and they shut the door.
"Do you think they'll be okay?" Piper asked Leo.
"Don't worry about them! They'll be absolutely fine!" said Leo.
End of Flashback
Leo felt tears prickling his eyes as he remembered the last time they ever talked to their sons'. Even when Chris had been in the hospital, he was so injured that he could even move his hand never mind open his eyes and speak to them. They talked to him though. Piper would talk to him about her work, what was going on at home and about the family. Leo would tell him what was going on in the news, football and magic school where he'd been working part time. Every once in awhile one of his fingers or eye would twitch as if he was letting them know he was listening. It had been the hardest week of their lives. At least Wyatt had died instantly and would have only felt about a second of pain but Chris had struggled and held on for a week before he let go.
The car stopped and everyone got out. Walking up to the manor Leo took hold of Pipers hand and gave it a squeeze. She looked up at him and smiled. Other cars pulled up as people arrived for the Wake. Opening the door with her key Piper let everyone inside the manor. Piper walked straight through to the kitchen, deliberately not looking at the photographs on the walls, so she could make tea and coffee for everybody and put out the sandwiches and other food. Phoebe and Paige followed her so they could help her and Leo and Victor made simple small talk with the visitors. Kanira stood with her younger cousins, trying to comfort them as they were still crying even though she felt she just wanted to sob her heart too.
Half an hour later the food had been set up on a table and all the tea and coffee had been served to everyone. Phoebe couldn't stand the atmosphere in the air. The conversation was strained and the visitors kept throwing them sideways glances as if they were expecting one of them to have a mental breakdown at any second. Moving away from the crowd, Phoebe looked at the photos on the wall. A lot of them were of Chris, Wyatt and Kanira growing up and there were a few of Lucy and Bethany too. Phoebe smiled as she looked at them all. One she liked in particular was one of Wyatt, Chris and Kanira when they were kids. They were at the beach with the sun shining brightly behind them. They had their arms around each others shoulders; Wyatt on the left, Chris in the middle and Kanira on the right. They were dressed in t-shirts and shorts with nothing on their feet and there was sand sticking all over their legs. They had been laughing when the picture had been taken and it was a great shot of them.
"Ugh! I can't do this anymore!"
Phoebe turned around quickly and her eyes widened when she saw everyone in the room except Paige, Piper, Kanira, Lucy and Bethany frozen.
"Piper! You can't just freeze everyone in the room! It's not very nice!" scolded Paige.
"You're right. It's not very nice to freeze everyone in the room!" said Piper and she unfroze Victor and Leo.
"Piper? What's going?" asked Victor looking around.
"Why is everyone frozen?" asked Leo.
"They are what is going on! They were just being…so…pitying! I'm upset enough about this and it doesn't help when everyone keeps side glancing pityingly at us! I wish they would just act normal." said Piper.
"Of course they're going to be like that Piper! We've just came back from a funeral. They knew Chris and Wyatt too and are probably really upset about it too. They probably think that if they're upset and they're just friends then what will we be feeling like." said Phoebe.
Piper opened her mouth to say more when they heard a thump coming from up above them
"What was that?" asked Leo.
"It came from upstairs." said Paige.
Pipers facial expression went thunderous and she marched passed the crowd to the stairs.
"Piper?" Phoebe called chasing after her older sister.
"I am not having demons in this house. Not today! If I find any demons when I get to the attic they are not going to know what hits them!" Piper fumed as she marched quickly upstairs.
"You three stay here!" Paige said to Kanira, Lucy and Bethany who nodded.
Phoebe, Paige, Leo and Victor followed Piper quickly. When she reached the attic, Piper burst through the door with her hands raised ready to blow up any demons that had decided to intrude.
But she didn't blow anything up. All she could do was stare in shock.
Because there standing in the middle of the attic were the people she thought she'd never see again. The people she thought she'd never hug or talk to again.
It was Wyatt and Chris.
Dun! Dun! Dun! Is it really Wyatt and Chris or is just demons playing a trick on them? Find out in the next chapter! Oh, and i of course have to be motivated to write the next chapter (hee hee)so please review!
