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Prisoner of her chains, Keira tried to get rid of them by pulling on the irons, but nothing managed to break them. Resigned, she dropped to the dusty floor of the cave. Crowley, who was seated on a rock detached from the cave, looked at his prisoner with a satisfied air.
"If you knew how long I've been waiting for this moment." he gloated.
"You shouldn't have done that to him." she whispered of Wyatt.
"I'm going to tell you something, if I did it, it was to keep them busy, so they'll spend all their time finding a way to save him, and they'll forget to come get you." he said, advancing towards her.
He crouched down to her level, and since her eyes were downcast, he grabbed her chin with one hand and forced her to look at him.
"You're going to give me your deflection power, and you're going to do it real quick. I've been waiting two years for it, and then I could wipe the Halliwell bloodline off the face of the earth once and for all. " he said to her.
"Fuck you !" she spat. "I would never give you my powers. You can kill me, or even torture me, I won't use any of my powers."
"Um, I could torture you like I did with your mother, but it didn't work so, we'll stay here as long as it takes, but I'll get my way, I can guarantee it." he retorted.
"You're a pretentious bastard." she replied.
"Thanks for the compliment." he smiles.
He put his mouth to Keira's, who bit his lip until it bled. He groaned in pain and pulled away from her.
"You bitch !" he swore, touching his lip.
He spat a thin trickle of blood on the ground and brandished his athame. He was about to plant it in the flesh of the young girl, but he retracted. If he killed her now, he would never get what he wanted. Keira was smiling internally, and externally. As long as she didn't use her powers, she would stay alive and buy time.
At Magic School, while Phoebe, Paige, Billie and the kids were looking for a way to break Crowley's spell, Piper kept pacing in the middle of the huge library.
"Piper, could you help us research, that would be nice." Paige asked.
"I'm worried about my son, and I don't know how to tell Leo that his son Wyatt is dying." Piper answered.
"We're also worried about him, but you won't find the solution by pacing." Phoebe told her.
"SANDRA !" Piper shouted.
The Elder materialized in front of Piper.
"Piper, I already know what you're going to ask me and the answer is no, I can't heal Wyatt." she said.
"But you are a Elder". Piper said.
"Yes, but our healing power remains the same as that of all Whitelighters. My magic will be blocked like Paige's was. Chris will have to find the strength within himself to heal his brother." Sandra explained.
"Is there a way to break the bond that Crowley created between Wyatt and Chris ?" Paige asked.
"It's possible. White Magic always wins over Black Magic, but I don't know how to achieve it." Sandra replied.
"Maybe we should think about finding Keira. The potion will be ready in a few hours." said Brianna, one of Paige's twins.
"The most important thing is to save Wyatt." Piper said.
"But Wyatt wants us to save Keira." Melinda persisted.
"Everything in its time." Billie told them.
"Crowley must be hiding Keira in the Underworld, but we'll have to be careful once we save Wyatt." Phoebe told them.
Leo arrived, and when he saw his family immersed in several tomes of magic, he asked :
"What is happening ?"
Piper mustered up her courage and explained the situation to her husband, whose face fell.
At the Manor.
As Chris leafed through the Book of Shadows in the attic, looking for a way to help his brother, Bianca changed Wyatt's bandage for the third time. Lying shirtless on his bed, the young witch winced in pain as Bianca removed the bloodstained piece of gas from him.
"Sorry !' Bianca apologized.
"It's okay, I had worse." he assured her.
"We'll find a solution, don't worry." she tried to soothe him.
"Where's Chris ?" Wyatt asked.
"In the attic. He keeps looking for a solution in the Book of Shadows." Bianca replied.
"Tell him to stop, it's no use." Wyatt said.
"Wyatt, he blames himself a lot. He thinks he's less talented than you and that's why he can't heal." she confessed to him.
"He mustn't think that." Wyatt said before coughing heavily.
Bianca hastened to make him drink some water, which calmed Wyatt a little.
"How much longer do you think you can last ?" Bianca asked.
"A few hours." Wyatt replied. "Maybe less, I can't say."
After dressing Wyatt's wound, Bianca noticed that her brother-in-law had a fever.
"You are hot." she said, touching his forehead.
"It's the poison, I feel it circulating in me even faster than I would have imagined." Wyatt explained.
"I should inform your mother of your condition." she suggested.
"No, listen Bianca, we need to know where he has Keira. He must surely be in the Underworld, and you can move around easily." he said to him.
"I promised your mother to watch over you." she countered.
"Please Bianca !" he begged her.
In the attic, Chris came across the text their father had written for his sons nineteen years earlier. All of his Whitelighter knowledge was written there, but Chris had never been able to heal anyone, while Wyatt had done so to save their mother when he was three years old.
"Chris ?"
He looked up and saw Bianca in the doorway.
"How's Wyatt ?" he asked.
"Not very well, he hangs on but the poison acts quickly." she replied.
Chris closed the Book of Shadows and went to sit on one of the armchairs, and put his head in his hands. For the first time since she had known him, Bianca saw the man she loved burst into tears. She immediately moved to his side and took him in her arms.
"Why ? Why am I unable to cure my own brother ? He is going to die and it will be entirely my fault." he said sobbing.
"No Chris, don't think like that and besides, Wyatt isn't dead yet. We still have time ahead of us to find a solution." she reassured him.
A few minutes passed when Chris finally stopped crying. He dried his tears, and Bianca said to him :
"Take the Book, and go to your brother. He wants me to go to the Underworld to track down Crowley, and I'm going. "
"Not alone Bianca." he refused.
"Don't worry, I'll take my precautions." she assured him.
Chris finally abdicated, and after giving her a few vials of potion, he kissed her, and she disappeared. Chris took the Book of Shadows and joined his brother in his room. When he entered the room, he had a feeling of panic seeing his brother on his bed, deathly pale, and with his eyes closed, but the movement of his chest rising and falling with each breath finally relieved Chris. He took a chair that he placed near the bed, and he sat down there before reopening the Book of Shadows.
Alone in the cave, Keira closed her eyes and attempted to connect her mind to Wyatt's. Instead, she found Bianca's, which was very close to where she was.
"Bianca, leave." Keira instructed him.
"Keira, where are you ?" Bianca asked.
"Listen to me Bianca, Crowley is not far away. He left me alone but I know he's not far away. Go back to the Manor and only come back with the potion. Save Wyatt at all costs, you'll come get me when he's finally out of danger." Keira replied.
"Are you sure ?" Bianca asked again.
"He won't kill me until I use any power against him." Keira assured her.
"Very well !" Bianca nodded.
"Bianca, tell Wyatt that I'm fine, that I love him, and this was the only way he could live. And tell Chris I have faith in him, he can do it." Keira said.
"I'll tell them." Bianca promised him.
The link faded, a sign that Bianca had left the Underworld. When Keira opened her eyes, Crowley watched her intently.
"What ?" she asked.
"Were you taking a nap ?" he scoffed.
"Are you still so dumb ?" she replied.
Crowley didn't answer, but he wore his characteristic sadistic smile.
"What powers can you possibly possess besides your darling mom's ?" he questioned.
"You just have to guess." she replied.
"Would you answer me sincerely ?" he wanted to know.
"Not even in dreams." she told him.
"Stubborn, I like it." he simpered.
Keira winced in disgust and turned her head away, mentally searching for a way out.
Bianca materialized in Wyatt's room, along with a woman the same age as Paige, blonde, short hair, and a black gym outfit.
"Chris, you remember my mother !" Bianca said.
"Yes, hello ma'am !" Chris said.
"I walked Bianca back here. She'll tell you what we found, and I'm off to try and find anything on this Crowley guy. I have reliable contacts." Bianca's mother affirmed.
She disappeared, leaving her daughter, Chris and Wyatt. The latter opened his eyes, and he was seized with a violent fit of coughing. Bianca made him drink, and changed the cold compress from her forehead.
"You found her ?" he asked.
"Yes she's fine." Bianca replied.
"Why didn't you bring her back ?" wondered Chris.
"She wants us to save Wyatt before we go looking for her, and anyway, as long as she doesn't use her powers, she's not in danger. Bianca explained." "She told me to go get her back only with the potion."
"Something else ?" Wyatt asked again.
"Yes, she makes you say she loves you, and that she was sorry but it was the only way to keep you alive." Bianca repeated.
Wyatt rested his head on his pillow, coughing again. The poison was spreading through his body at lightning speed.
"Chris, she also asked me to tell you that she has faith in you. She knows you'll be able to heal Wyatt, and so do I. You need to find the strength within you !" Bianca said.
Silent tears streamed down Chris's face.
At Magic School, Leo had collapsed when he heard the news about Wyatt.
"And we can't do anything ?" he asked.
"Crowley made Chris the only one who could save Wyatt." Sandra replied.
"Unless we find a way to break the spell." Piper said.
"We have to act quickly in this case." Leo said joining his daughter in the search.
Hours passed without anyone finding anything, when Prudence proposed :
"What if Wyatt and Chris swapped their powers using the formula found in the Book of Shadows ? Chris would be armed with Wyatt's healing power."
"It won't change anything. Chris will have to learn how to use it quickly, and we have very little time in front of us." Phoebe explained.
Bianca materialized on the school grounds, which interrupted the conversations.
"Don't tell me he's…" Piper started to say but Bianca cut her off.
"He's still alive, but the poison is spreading fast, and the potion that will allow us to defeat Crowley is finally ready. I know where Keira is because Wyatt asked me to go to the Underworld to find her. She wants us to focus on Wyatt first, and only then will we go after her."
"She's still alive ?" Billie asked.
"As long as she doesn't use her powers, she will." Bianca replied. "My mother found information on Crowley."
She showed them a book, and as she read, Phoebe ended up saying :
"Oh ho !"
At the Manor, Chris had collapsed next to his brother, crying hot tears.
"Chris…stop…crying…" Wyatt coughed.
"It's all my fault. You'd be cured by now if I was as good as you." Chris said.
"Please little brother, don't feel guilty." Wyatt said.
"You're my brother Wyatt, what am I going to do without you ?" sobbed Chris.
Wyatt took his brother's hand, and squeezed it as hard as his strength allowed. When Chris felt the pressure of his brother's hand release, he looked up and saw that Wyatt had closed his eyes, and wasn't breathing.
"Wyatt, Wyatt wake up. WYATT !" Chris said, shaking his brother.
But Wyatt wasn't moving.
"WYATT NO !" yelled Chris.
Completely disarmed, Chris fell back on his brother, and cried even more than before, his right hand at the level of his brother's heart.
"Do not abandon me. I need you !" Chris lamented. "I love you !"
