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Chris was well aware that he was stuttering, he couldn't help it. Never in the entire time that he was planning and imagining this reunion did he remember that Mel didn't know that their mother was dead.
"Mellie, maybe you should rest more. Don't want to wear yourself out, do you? Here lets rearrange your pillow so that you don't get a crink..."
"Chris, stop fussing with my pillows. And answer the damn question will ya. Where's Mom?" Mel peered up at her brother and got the distinct impression that he was avoiding her gaze. Then it hit her. Why Chris would be in England, why her mother and aunt hadn't been in the rescue party, why they had been trying to say goodbye.
"N...No... please, oh god, please no." She started to choke on the words as she said them. Chris finally looked at her full in the face and the heartbroken look that he had confirmed what she had already guessed.
"Mom died about two years ago, on my birthday," he whispered. He closed his eyes as he heard Melinda break down on the bed next to him. He reached out to pull her into him and she collapsed on his shoulder sobbing.
They sat like that for awhile until Mel was calm enough to think, and something was bothering her.
"But...but why didn't Daddy come. He could always tell when she was hurt. Even just a little paper cut, and he'd come orbing down to her. He would have healed her, right?" Melinda looked at him through her red rimmed eyes and Chris found that he couldn't lie to her like he had been planning. He had wanted to protect her from hating their dad like he did. But, Chris, being Chris, opted for the truth in the end.
"I called him, I really did. Mom was in the kitchen making breakfast when she was attacked. I ran down and gathered her up, called for him. But after like 5 minutes, and she still was bleeding and he wasn't there...I called for Wyatt to come. He didn't come either, was busy in the heavens or something and he claims that he couldn't hear me. Anyway, neither of them came. Mom died in my arms." Chris stared at the wall as he recited the story that still gave him nightmares, and caused him to hate the man that was his dad.
"He didn't come?" Mel was a little shocked. She knew that her dad and Chris didn't always see eye to eye on a lot of topics, but he should have come.
"When I asked him, at the funeral, why, he said he only knew that it was me. Not what I was calling about. And that it didn't seem very important," Chris said bitterly.
"Then he isn't very important to me either," Mel said in a defiant tone. "If your child calls for you, you come. You don't wait to see why, you just come. So he can bite me, I don't care about him anymore." She started to get weepy again, "He let my mother die."
And Melinda leaned her head back on Chris's shoulder and wept more until she fell asleep again.
"My Lord," one of Wyatt's minions shimmered into the anteroom to Wyatt's offices and bowed low.
"What is it now?" Wyatt drawled as he noticed the low-level demon.
"The hospital as been broken into, my Lord. All the children have been taken into custody of Wizarding authorities."
"WHAT??" Wyatt roared, "Why am I only being informed of this NOW!!"
"Well, they took hold of all the doctors and staff. Since you limited the amount of people that may enter, well, we just discovered the fact." The demon kept his head down and hoped to the fiery pits of hell that he wouldn't be going there anytime soon.
"Christopher," was all that Wyatt said as he flamed out, leaving a relieved demon behind.
Wyatt reappeared in the grand hall of the Underworld, where all the demons gathered for kills. He held up his hand and they all fell silent at the appearance of their leader.
"I want Christopher Perry Halliwell brought to me, alive. The bounty will exceed all other bounties that have ever been heard of. Greater than the one that was placed on the Charmed Ones by the Source two Sources ago. If you can get your hands, or claws, on Melinda Penelope Halliwell as well, you will be safe forever from my wrath."
A stir ran up from the demons, they all realized that these two people were his siblings. And the bounty, well enough said that every demon in the cosmos would be after these two.
Wyatt surveyed the hall, and seeing that he had sparked enough interest flamed out.
"Um, Remus?"
A voice from the fireplace startled Remus Lupin into waking up from his light doze in the kitchen. He spun around and was shocked to see that Arthur Weasley's head was floating in the fireplace.
"Arthur?! Why are you out of your bed? The Healers will kill you if they find out that you are using the Floo."
"There is no time for explanations right now. Listen Remus, there is a slight problem that I believe requires you." Arthur was completely and utterly serious for once. There was no laugher anywhere on his face.
"Uh, Molly told me about the other werewolf that is in your room, and I don't feel that ..."
"It's not about that," Arthur interrupted him. "Though it might be nice of you to talk to the poor chap. But anyway, that's not why I called. When Lily was pregnant with Harry, or even right before she found out. Was Sirius seeing anyone, that he was uh...well close with?" Arthur looked a little uncomfortable with the subject, but asked anyway.
"Uh, let me think. That was awhile ago after all. Um, there was Megan, Megan...Parks. Megan Parks, that's right. They were pretty hot and heavy until she moved to like Wales or something. That was maybe 2 months before Lily found out about Harry. Why?"
"Well, one of the rescued children is Griffin Parks and he looks a hell of a lot like Sirius. Enough to make me think that they were related," Arthur said.
Remus paled to a point where he was nearly dead white. "Oh bugger. This is bad, really bad. If Sirius has a son, that means that the Black line had another heir, which means that his will is wrong." Remus looked wild eyed at Arthur, "I have to tell him. I have to, he'll never forgive me if I don't. I'll see you later Arthur, I have to go."
With that said, Remus ran out and Arthur retreated back to his room.
Leo Wyatt orbed into St. Mungo's along with the other Elders and immediately requested his daughter's room. Getting the room number was easy, especially after he explained that he was her father, finding it was a bit harder. He was walking down the hall, again, when he saw Christopher emerge from a room.
"Christopher, is that your sister's room? Where is she, I need to speak to her." Leo pushed by his son and started to open the door.
"She doesn't want to talk to you," Chris said and put his hand on th door to stop him from opening it.
"Don't be silly, of course she wants to see me. I'm her father and want to talk to her about something important."
Chris scowled and put more weight on the door when Leo again tried to open it. "And would that important discussion involve Wyatt?" he asked in a quiet voice.
"That is none of your business, you are not entitled to know what I want to talk about." Leo placed a hand in the center of Chris's chest and gave him a shove that sent him staggering away from the door. Chris waved his hand and held the door shut with his telekinesis.
"Wyatt is the reason that Mel was in that place. He sent her and all those other kids there, he isn't good anymore. Wyatt is the Source and will stop at nothing to achieve complete power over everyone." Chris had walked back over to Leo and was shouting this in his face when the door behind them opened.
"Chris? What's going on?" They both glanced back at the door and saw Mel standing there with her hair mussed and a confused expression on her face. When she saw Leo her expression hardened, something that Leo didn't fail to notice.
"What lies have you told her?" he snarled at Chris. He knew that Chris had told her something that would turn her against him and Wyatt.
"He hasn't told me any lies! It's all the truth! You let Mom die and then, decided to ignore your younger son until Grandpa died," Mel cried at him. Chris had filled her in on what happened after their mother died. Wyatt had disappeared and Chris lived with Victor until his lungs had caught up with his smoking and he had also died.
"He was telling lies about your better older brother, saying that he had turned." Leo pleaded with his daughter. He wanted her to help him with Wyatt, he needed to stop spending so much time in the Underworld and learn more about his powers.
"Wyatt is NOT the better older brother. He is a power crazy demon loving psychopath. He sent me to that place. I saw him. There is no use to try and hide the facts anymore. He's gone down the path of evil and there is no rescuing him from it." Mel stopping ranting and realized that she was breathing too hard.
"How dare you make those accusations toward your brother. He is the best being of good on th planet and protected you and Chris," he said with a sneer. "From all harm that could have come to you. You may have never made it to this age without him."
"I almost didn't thanks to him." Mel pointed out. I mean, hello the hospital.
"Well, I know who to blame for this." Leo turned to where Chris was standing watching all of it play out with an open mouth. He had forgotten how snappy Mel could be, and how mad she could get.
"Christopher, you have poisoned your sister's mind. And in doing so, gone against the Elders and all that we stand for. So punishment must be meted out." So saying Leo raised his right hand and started to gather the power for an Elder lightening bolt. Chris was frozen to the spot. His father, crappy as he was, had never really raised a hand to him.
Leo didn't have a chance to use that power though because Mel blew him up first. Chris sprang into action when Leo reformed and turned to attack Mel instead.
Lifting his hand he threw Leo across the hall. Neither him or his sister noticed the crowd that had formed when the verbal punched were still being delivered.
Many watched in awe as an Elder continued to attempt to hurt Chris and Melinda, only to be throw into a wall or blown up. He finally managed to land a bolt on Chris when they thought he was going to stop, Chris landed rather painfully on his back with his shoulder burning. However this only seemed to enrage Mel since she started to blow up Leo without stopping.
Sterling ran forward and grabbed her arms, holding her hands up to the ceiling where she couldn't hurt anyone else.
The Elder Kevin stepped forward and healed Chris before going over to where Leo was lying on the floor breathing hard. "Leo, return to the heavens at once. You have shamed the name of Elders, we are nonviolent. You have acted out of stupidity and injured your own son. They are right by the way, Wyatt has indeed gone to the dark side. Now, go, before I change my mind and leave you to these rather angry teenagers.
Leo glared up at him, but orbed since he noticed the hall full of kids that looked like they wanted a piece of him.
"Thanks Kev," Chris said as he came other rubbing his shoulder. "Why do you believe us when no one else does?"
"Demons are terrible gossips."
"Oh."
"Be careful Chris, when Wyatt gets wind of this he's going to be out for blood." With that final warning, Kevin orbed out, swiftly followed by the other Elders and whitelighters.
"Well Jesus, guess we're rid of him huh?" Mel came up to her brother and stared at the spot where her father had been laying.
"Yep. Good riddance, now we can get down to business." Chris gestured for Hope to follow him, and they went back into Mel's room to talk of the future, and the past.
As the hours passed more and more parents were showing up at St. Mungo's looking for their children. Many were Muggles and had to be orbed there by a kind whitelighter, even more though wanted to know who rescued them. Upon hearing that Chris Halliwell was the main person to come up with the plot, they wanted him to be awarded some kind of metal or something. They really couldn't have been more thankful.
Sirius though was extremely confused as to why he was being allowed out of the house and to St. Mungo's. It wasn't like he was hurt or something, and Harry wasn't, so why was he here. Remus had done some elaborate Transfiguration on his face so that he could pass as one of the parents that were currently flooding the building. Remus was also making him wait in Arthur's room while he, as he put it, looked for the reason that they were there.
Arthur pretty much ignored him. He was busy talking to the kid that was sharing the room with him. Sirius had to admit though that the kid was a riot, reminded him of himself and James when they were younger.
Just as Sirius was pushing away from the wall to investigate were Remus had disappeared to, the kid's mother came running in. Griffin leaped off the bed and was caught by his mom before his feet touched the ground. She had banded her arms so tightly around him that Griffin had to ask her for room to breathe. When she pulled back to smile at him and examine him better Sirius caught a glimpse of her face.
Oh Merlin's bleeding Y-fronts. It's couldn't possibly be her. But of course it was, Megan Parks, the girl he hadn't seen in some 16 years. Wait a minute...
Sirius's head swiveled between her and her son, a boy that was about Harry's age. Who would have been born 16 years ago. He was sleeping with her 16 years ago, and she mentioned being late the last time he saw her. Then she had run off to Wales or Sweden, something like that. And if his guess was right, have his child.
This was why Remus wanted him to come here. But he couldn't reveal himself here. He was a murder, and would be hauled back to Azkaban before he got a chance to explain himself. And to hear hers.
He needed to find Remus.
So i hope that you really liked it
leo got beaten up to the point where he won't mess with his kids anymore, sorry i couldn't kill him. i need him later
and yes Sirius will solve his little problem in the next chapter
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