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New Surprises Pt 2

Chapter 2: Where is my Sister?

"Can you tell me what happened, now?" Chris asked his cousin, while they tried to find some food to throw together. Just then, Piper and Phoebe entered.

"Do you want us to help?" Piper asked the two youngsters.

"We're fine, Piper," Chris said and then turned to his cousin, "Please? I'd like to know how my baby sister ended up in the hands of Wyatt."

Henry looked away, could he really tell Chris the truth? And with two of the Charmed Ones in there.

"Maybe you should explain," Phoebe said, sensing some worry and fear from him, "I'm sure Chris won't be angry at you."

Chris looked at his aunt, thanking her with a smile and then turned back to his 17-year-old cousin.

"We were going in for the blue-prints. Ryan got us in, told us where to find them," Henry started, he looked through the hole where the door should have been into the living room to still see Melinda looking at the laptop, and writing something on a notepad at the side of her, "We got into the room, but some demons found out. Melinda turned herself in to get us out."

"What!" Chris said, dropping what he was holding, "You let her hand herself in?"

"We didn't have a choice, Chris," Henry looked away, this was why he did not want to say anything, "With Bianca back evil and Hannah turning, we needed the blue prints more than ever. Melinda thought it be best for her to be the one to get caught. She's the strongest out of the lot of us, and with Ryan there he could help her."

"Yeah, he obviously helped her."

"He got her back, Chris," Phoebe rubbed the back of her youngest nephew, "He can't be all bad."

Chris felt like breaking down, within the seven months of being gone, he had lost one of his cousins to evil, his fiancée was dead and his sister had been taken and tortured for three months. He was failing them, or so he thought.

"You're not failing us, Chris," he heard a voice from the doorway. As he looked he saw his sister, she had got changed since she had returned, she was now in some jeans and a tank top, he could still see some of the whip marks all over her arms and mid-drift, "But you will if you don't get your butt back to the past and stop everything."

Melinda stepped past two of the Charmed Ones and poured herself some water. She winced as her top caught the marks again.

"You want me to try and heal them again?" Henry asked her, feeling sorry for her, but saw her shake her head.

"Chris never said he was failing you." Piper spoke up, not understanding why Melinda had said what she had.

"She's a telepath," Chris sighed, "Be careful what you think." Chris looked at his sister. Want to talk? He asked telepathically.

"I'm going back to work." Melinda avoided Chris gaze, leaving the room. She never let her emotions out, and she was not about to now. Just because she had gone to hell and back did not mean she was going to let her barriers down.

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"How the hell did she escape?" An angry Wyatt shouted at two demons that were stood in front of him.

"I'm sorry, my Lord," one of the demons answered, lowing his head, "We went to get her and she wasn't there."

Wyatt stood between the demons, his blue eyes burning into them. He knew he was on the verge of breaking his younger sister and now these two imbeciles of demons had lost her. How could you lose someone who could not escape? Unless she had help. Help! That was it, someone had helped her escape. And there were only two people who would be capable of it, who would have reasons for it. Without another word, the blonde-haired witch threw two energy balls, hitting both the demons square in the chest, vanquishing them. He did not need them, he had enough demons.

"Ryan! Hannah!" Wyatt called out angrily. It was one of these two, he knew it. In the blink of an eye, Hannah orbed in and Ryan shimmered. Both knelt to the ground, with their heads down.

"Yes Lord Wyatt?" Hannah asked, sensing the anger coming from her eldest cousin.

"Get up, both of you."

Ryan stood up and looked at his ex-best friend. He could remember when they were growing up, Wyatt was still so innocent back then, he never knew what had turned him. He watched the muscular witch pacing in front of the two.

"Where is she?"

Ryan tried to keep his heart rate down, he must have found out about Melinda, it actually took him longer than he expected. Now all he had to do was stay calm. If Wyatt found out it was him that had helped her escape, he would be dead for sure.

"Well?"

"Where's who?" Hannah asked, lightly.

"Melinda, who else?" Wyatt shouted, staring at his cousin, deep into her brown eyes. He grabbed her mousy blonde hair and pulled it back.

"Where is my sister?"

Hannah winced in pain as Wyatt pulled her hair back.

"I don't know." She stuttered. That must have been enough for him because he let go of her, giving her chance to run her hands through her hair.

"Ryan?" Wyatt asked, staring into the green eyes of his friend.

"I don't know, she was in the dungeons the last time I saw her." Ryan stared back into the blue eyes of the most powerful witch he knew. If he showed any sign of weakness, Wyatt would have him, he needed to stand his ground for Melinda's sake. He thought back to Melinda's torture sessions, he would stare into her blue eyes every time, wishing her pain to go away. That was what he would go through if Wyatt found out the truth, or would he? Would Wyatt just kill him on the spot? No, Ryan had seen what Wyatt had done to the people who betrayed him. They were thrown into the dungeons, they went through months if not years of torture until Wyatt would finally get bored and kill them.

"I want you to find her," Wyatt looked at the two, planning on sending demons to tail them, "I will break that bitch, even if it means going into her mind."

Hannah and Ryan both stared at the man as he ran his hand through his shoulder-length blonde hair, "Go NOW!"

With that, both the 'help' left in their teleportation way.

"Nick, Kira!" Wyatt shouted as two shapeshifters shimmered in.

"Yes my Lord?" They both answered, kneeling to the ground as Ryan and Hannah had done previously.

"I've sent Hannah and Ryan to find my sister, I want you to follow them. I know one of them is responsible for it. The one who finds out there will be nice reward."

At that, the two shapeshifters shimmered out, leaving Wyatt to his pacing.

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"So, you've been hiding out here for three years now?" Paige asked the two young girls, whilst they ate what Chris and Henry had managed to throw together.

"We've had to," Peyton answered her aunt, "We can't risk being caught."

"Why not?" Phoebe asked, surprised at the fear both girls fed off to her empathy skills.

"You don't want to know and anyway future consequences." Chris mumbled to his aunt, eyeing his two cousins carefully.

"Will you stop with the future consequences crap," Piper shouted at her son, "We're in the future, we've seen the disaster its going to become."

"He's right Aunt Piper," Henry shook his head, "Not the future consequences bit but you don't want to know."

"Can we decide if we want to know?" Paige asked the young boy.

"No you can't." Came the cold voice of Melinda again. They all looked over to see her still engrossed in the laptop, her food to one side, untouched.

"Melinda, sweetie, why don't you eat." Phoebe asked, treading carefully.

"Not hungry." Melinda answered without looking at her aunt. She could not get herself caught up in her family now, not when they were going to be gone soon. She did not want to gain them and lose them again.

"I bet you've hardly eaten in the past three months, Melinda." Chris stated, remember what it was like for him when he was in Wyatt's dungeons, but he was only 15, Wyatt was not so skilled in the torture, however after seven years his experience probably grew.

"Probably why I'm not hungry."

"So, you need to eat. You're skin and bone at the moment."

Melinda looked up at her brother and then looked at the food. She thought about throwing the food back at Chris, but decided against it and just went back to the blue prints. They were not much help though. She needed Ryan here to tell her which rooms were protected by which demons. Where the valuable stuff were, where the Book of Shadows was. She needed that book, that would help a hell of a lot, but she needed to get the book without Wyatt finding her, not possible at the moment.

"What's wrong with her?" Prue asked, she was used to Melinda's nature towards Wyatt, but at the moment she was icy towards everyone. Not only the iciness, but also all she cared about was getting into Wyatt's mansion, finding Wyatt before he found them.

"She's just been through a lot," Peyton pulled her sister towards her, holding her, "It'll be ok. She'll be back to normal in a few days."

"As normal as she can be." Henry added, causing Prue to laugh at him.

"Mel?" everybody, except Mel, looked up to see Ryan stood in the room, "Mel!"

This time Melinda looked up, staring at the love of her life she put the laptop to one side and stood up.

"I'm only here to two seconds, ok?" Ryan explained, feeling like somebody had followed him, "Wyatt knows you're gone and I think he knows I had something to do with it."

"I'm not going back." Chris looked to see a flash of fear in his sisters eyes.

"I'm not asking you to, I wouldn't let you go back, I'd rather have him find out then you to go through all that again." So Ryan had seen everything that had happened, but it took him three months to get Melinda back out.

"I'm just warning you," Ryan grabbed Melinda's shoulders, "Look I'd better get back, I don't want them finding out you're here, but can you start moving just in case."

"You've led someone here, haven't you?" Chris asked, he knew not to trust the guy, but his sister loved him.

"No, I don't know…" Ryan turned his attention back to Melinda, "Look, if he's got someone following me it means he knows and if I don't see you again, I want you to know that I love you so much. I've never loved someone more than you."

"No, don't say that you're not coming back. Wyatt doesn't know anything yet." Melinda felt like she wanted to cry, but there were too many people in the room.

"Melinda, listen to me. I love you, and as soon as I can I'll come and see you. He's got Hannah out looking for you too, so be careful." With that, Ryan kissed Melinda, passionately, and then shimmered out. Melinda looked at everybody.

"Looks like it's gonna be sooner than expected."

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Nick shimmered into Wyatt's mansion, just outside his office. Wyatt would be pleased, he had just found out who was behind Melinda's disappearance and had also found out where his family were hiding. What was even better, the Charmed Ones were there. Obviously they were from the past, he had been there when Wyatt had killed the final sister, but this would give Wyatt a chance to kill them before his family were born. Before a resistance could be set up.

Knocking on the door he waited patiently for his Lord to allow him entrance.

"What?" he heard an angry voice call out. Nick took that as a 'come in' and opened the door. He stepped over the threshold and saw his lord still pacing.

"Nick, please tell me you have good news."

Nick feared slightly, he knew if this news was not good enough, Wyatt would kill him.

"I followed Ryan, my Lord," Nick started, "I followed him straight to Melinda and the rest of the family. I've found their hideout."

Wyatt looked at the shapeshifter with a smile, it was not often he smiled, but hearing that his family's hideout had finally been found he was happy.

"There's more, my Lord," Nick continued seeing the smile on Wyatt's face, "Your brother is back from the past and he has brought the Charmed Ones with him."

Wyatt was slightly taken aback, not that his brother was back, the family would call for him sooner or later without Melinda there, but he had brought his mother and aunts with him.

"Was Leo there?" Wyatt questioned, he did not have the same hostilities that his younger brother had towards their father, but still did not like him, after all he was an Elder who fought against them.

"I didn't see, my Lord," Nick bowed his head, ready for an energy ball, "I'm sorry."

"Never mind," Wyatt shook his head, "You did well, Nick. Thank you. Now, for that, I want you to lead one of the sections who will move in. Now that we have their position we can attack. I want everybody ready to attack my midnight tomorrow."

"Yes my Lord," Nick bowed, getting ready to leave the room, "Thank you my Lord."

And with that, Nick shimmered out, leaving Wyatt to think of how to storm the family. Wyatt sat at his desk, and summoned Ryan. Seeing Ryan shimmer into the room, he leaned back into his chair.

"Ryan, Ryan, Ryan," Wyatt shook his head, tutting at his friend, "Of all the people to betray me."

Ryan was ready for this. He knew he sensed someone follow him, but put it off as being paranoid. Always trust your instincts, Ryan, he kicked himself.

"Wyatt, I'm…"

"If you weren't my best friend before this then I would kill you on the spot," Wyatt had something in mind, "But you were, and for that I will give you one more chance. Since you kindly led my demon to my sister's hideout, we now have a place to attack. Midnight tomorrow. Make sure you're ready, you will be by my side."

"Yes, Wyatt." Attack! He needed to get to Melinda to warn her straight away.

"How is my sister by the way?" Wyatt smirked, "My spell worked, I'm trusting. Henry could not heal her. She will be weaker than usual, right."

"Yes, Wyatt." Ryan nodded, he just had to answer the questions and then get out of there.

"Good, I can't have her fighting at full strength," Wyatt said, partly to himself, "Now go, leave me. Be ready for midnight, tomorrow."

Ryan shimmered out of the office and back to his room. He had to find a way to get to Melinda without other demons following him, Wyatt must still have demons tailing him. Looking around the room he shimmered out.

"All I'm saying is we need to get to him sooner rather than later." Melinda shouted at her cousins, why were they not listening to her?

"You can't Mel," Chris finally got into the argument, "If you go now you won't have the strength to keep up the fight. You're still weak, and you're not eating or sleeping."

"I'm fine!" Melinda looked at her brother, she hated him right this minute. She knew how weak she was, but she knew that if it came down to it, all her anger towards her older brother would give her more strength to fight to the death, even if it was her death. Melinda sometimes wished for death, especially through her three months in the dungeons.

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Melinda laid on the cold floor. The cold helped the heat coming from her back. Her back was the worst, probably because that was where he kept attacking. She looked up to the ceiling.

"Kill me now." She said to nobody in particular. She had no idea how long this had been going on for, it felt like weeks, months even years. She never saw daylight and had no sense of the time, anywhere. The only things that were keeping her sane right now were Chris and Ryan. She had to stay strong for them. Chris had been in the past for four months before all this, was he back by now? No, nothing had changed, Wyatt was still as evil as ever.

"He's not evil, it's all about power." Melinda reminded herself. She could hear movement. Not more, she thought to herself, I can't take anymore. Maybe I should just give up. But she could not give up. She could not give up her family to him. She could not let him know where her cousin were hiding, and would also not tell where the resistance were. They were the two things he wanted to know. The two things he needed to know. She watched, weakly, as the footsteps got closer, then she saw a figure stood at the bars.

"Kill me, please." She mumbled to herself.

"I'll get you out of here, I promise baby."

Wait, it was Ryan. Or was it? Wyatt had been playing with her mind so much right now. He thought she would tell Chris where the family were hiding, but if he really knew Chris, he would know Chris would know that. Then he glamoured into Peyton, to convince her to tell her, but Melinda would not. She refused to believe the glamouring, yet Wyatt continued to do it, although he had not glamoured into Ryan, yet. But Wyatt did not know Ryan was working both sides, did he? Had he found out? If he had, then Ryan would be dead now, and there would be nothing left to fight for. No, there would, Chris. She would continue to fight for Chris.

"Baby? Melinda?" Ryan's voice called out to her.

"Tell me something so I know it's really you."

Melinda always said this to Wyatt's glamours, that was when she could find out who it was. If it was Wyatt, he would not be able to say anything that he did not know himself. Melinda needed to hear something from Ryan that Wyatt did not know about.

"You only cry to me, Melinda, you keep a barrier up but let it down when you see me." That did it for her.

"Ryan, kill me."

"I can't kill you, but give me time and I'll get you out of here. Ok? Melinda? Melinda?"

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Melinda was pulled out of her thoughts to the sound of someone calling her. She looked up to see a human-looking demon in the room, and Chris and Henry slightly worried. They would be, he was a darklighter, but she knew this one. He was on their side, and he only came when Ryan had a message.

"Ben, what is it?" Melinda asked, walking to the darklighter.

"Melinda!" She heard Chris exclaiming to her as she got closer to the darklighter, he killed their kind.

"Ryan sent me with a message," Ben explained, knowing Melinda probably knew that. He looked at her and realised what Ryan had been talking about. He mentioned torture, he never mentioned hell, "Wyatt's found your hideout."

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