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Thank you to my reviewees. Again it was very much appreciated. At least I know some people like this idea.

New Surprises pt 3

Chapter 3: We Need A Plan

"Wyatt's found the hideout? How the hell did Wyatt found the hideout?" Melinda screamed at the darklighter, who took a step back away from her. Melinda was not the nicest person to come across when she was in a good mood, but what she was angry it was even worse. She had definitely inherited her mother's temper.

"Mel, Ryan just came to tell me. He said he couldn't come himself…"

"In case someone was following him. I know, I know…wait! Someone WAS following him before!"

"I knew you couldn't trust the guy." Chris' thoughts accidentally said out loud.

"Chris, not the time." Peyton shook her head, as she saw Melinda pacing the floor.

Melinda had to think, Wyatt knew their hideout. He could attack at anytime. They would be sitting ducks, they all had to get out of there. Melinda had to send her mother, aunts and brother back to the past before Wyatt attacked. If the Charmed Ones were killed now, that was it, their future would be completely screwed.

"There's more," Ben stated, hoping that Melinda would not shout at him again. He got a glare from her to say carry on, "Ryan said Wyatt's going to attack. Midnight tomorrow."

"What!" Prue shouted, she started running to get a bag to pack things. The last time Wyatt attacked they had only just managed to get out alive before the place was burnt down, at least they had just over 24 hours warning.

"Stop packing, Prue," Melinda shouted, still looking at Ben, "Can you go get as many demons as you can?"

"Melinda?" Henry asked uncertain, was she really saying what he was thinking?

"You're seriously not thinking…?" Peyton was now scared, she knew this was going to come, but right now? They were not ready to face him, were they?

"Ben, can you get them?" Ben nodded his head, "Round up as many as you can, I want you back within six hours. This is going to take some planning."

With that, Ben dark-orbed out leaving Melinda with three very scared looking cousins, a confused brother and three shocked Charmed sisters.

"Henry," Melinda turned to the whitelighter, "Can you round up as many whitelighter, elves, faires, every fucking good magical creature you can get that will help?"

"Melinda, this isn't a good idea," Henry dared to argue with his elder cousin, "We should run."

"Fine, you three run, but I'm not," Melinda shouted, "I'm sick of running, I'm tired of it, I have to fight and I'll get the help myself."

Melinda was about to orb out but was stopped at the sound of Peyton's voice. Melinda stopped her orbing and looked at Peyton.

"You've got me," Peyton said weakly, "And Prue too."

Melinda looked at her two cousins in turn and nodded her head. She then looked at Henry.

"I'll go and get the help."

At that, Henry orbed out, which left Melinda to sort out getting the Charmed Ones back. But she could actually do with their help to plan on this. She had ready up on their history, the planning that they did to defeat the two Sources, Zankou (although they had not had to come up against him yet, she did not think) and the other numerous demons that came across as a big threat. This needed to be planned out fully, they could not fail, Wyatt would not win.

"Peyton, Prue can you get the resistance here?"

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The sound of knocking awoke Wyatt.

"Just a minute." Wyatt called as he looked at the sleeping girl in his arms. Just another one of his mistresses, he did not even know her name. Once he climbed off the bed and pulled on his boxers, he walked to the door and opened it. He saw one of his demons stood at his door, waiting for him.

"What?" He had already noticed it was just after four in the morning, not a time that he wanted to be woken by some low-level demon.

"My Lord," the demon spoke, "I was asked to waken you by Lady Hannah, she said that there is news of the magical community joining together."

"And how would she know that?" Wyatt asked, he was not a morning person, let alone a person who had been woken up three hours before he was due to get up. Why was ruling the world so hard?

"She was in the underworld and found a darklighter recruiting demons."

Wyatt flashed the demon a look of shock. Luckily the said demon still had his head down so did not see the shock in the blue eyes of his Lord. Now Wyatt was awake, if demons were joining together then that would mean Melinda was planning the same thing he was planning, but he did not know when. They had already got into the mansion once before, there were only four of them then and only Melinda was caught. If only he knew what they had come in for. He still could not figure out what they had stolen. Stupid really, he should have known where everything was, and if anything those four would have been trying to steal the Book of Shadows, but they were in the wrong room…

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Wyatt had just been alerted to the burglary, and to top it all off the burglars were his own family, the same four people he had been trying to kill for the past seven years. He still had not managed it, Melinda and Chris had been looking after them extremely well, but now Chris was in the past, how had their hideout managed to stay hidden, Melinda was not that good, was she?

Once he had been alerted, he soon found out that one person had been caught. He followed the demon to the dungeons to find a blonde-haired girl behind the bars.

"Melinda!" Wyatt smiled, he was happy, "I'm slightly surprised that you're the one to get caught."

"You think I got caught?" Melinda laughed, he saw the fire in her blue eyes, the same blue eyes they had. They were so much alike, both would fight to the death. He did not like the sound in what his 19-year-old sister had just said, "I handed myself in so the others could get what we came for."

From then on he knew he needed to get the information out of her. He would go to any measure to get the information, as long as he needed until she broke. What he did not realise was that Melinda was a tough cookie to crack.

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They had got what they wanted and now he was going to pay for it, especially if she was managing to get everybody who opposed him together. He needed to move his surprise attack to earlier. Looking at a clock he realised that his attack was meant to happen in less than 20 hours, but now it was going to happen in less than 15, and he was going to pay his baby sister a little visit first.

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"There's only two ways into this house. The two doors," Melinda explained to the group of the magical community that were congregating in her house.

"What about orbing and shimmering and…" Paige started to ask her niece, realising she had actually thought this through.

"Only a select few people can teleport in and out of here," Melinda explained, for once she was not cold, "Try it."

Nodding, Paige tried to orb out of the hideout but found she could not. Piper and Phoebe looked expecting to see blue and white orbs, but instead found Paige looking like she was trying to hold her breath. They started laughing at her, until she opened her eyes.

"I didn't orb, did I?"

Piper shook her head, stifling a laugh, and then turned to her daughter.

"How did you manage it?"

"Manage what?" Melinda asked her mother.

"Only letting a few people teleport in and out? I'm impressed."

Melinda felt a warm glow over her, her mother was proud of her, but she quickly shrugged it off, explaining it was something she had picked up.

"It's the same thing Wyatt has on his dungeons," Chris explained, "They both used it when they were kids on their bedrooms. It was hell me trying to get into them, especially when either one of them was in trouble."

Chris smirked to his sister, who smiled at the memory. She had forgotten about that.

"So you like to cause trouble." Piper smiled as she finally saw her daughter's eyes warm slightly.

"Who's the horsey?" Prue asked, looking at the chess pieces that Melinda had managed to find to place people on her 'planning board', "Can I be the horsey."

"Yes honey, you can be the horsey," Melinda smiled, realising Prue's maturity level was going down because of the possibility of danger, "And your sister will be the other horsey, and will always be by your side." Melinda placed the two Knight chess pieces on her drawing of the house, to show where the two sisters would be standing. "Ben, I need you and another darklighter with them. Wyatt's still a whitelighter, even if his orbs aren't so white, so if he becomes a big threat to them, shoot him, ok?"

"Sure." Ben looked up to Melinda, suddenly realising what Ryan saw in her. He used to think she was a cold-hearted bitch, who just wanted to see her brother fall, but now he saw she was just looking out for her family.

"Will Ryan be with you?" Chris asked, slightly annoyed.

"No," Mel shook her head, "At least I don't think so. If Wyatt knows about him, I have this feeling he'll either be dead already or in the dungeons and to be honest I don't want to go down and check."

"You not going to save him?" Chris asked, surprised that he would save her from torture, but not the other way round.

"If I go down there and get caught," Melinda eyed her brother, "Everything he did for me was for nothing," That shut Chris up, he knew she was right;

"So how do you want me?" Chris and Melinda both looked at each other and laughed slightly. They were both sharing the same thought of when Chris and Bianca had caught her and Ryan sleeping with each other and just at the point of them walking in Melinda had said; 'So how do you want me?' Melinda started to turn red from the thought as Chris pulled her into a hug.

"You're going back to the past with mom and the aunts," Melinda finally answered, "We can't afford them getting killed and I can't lose you."

"I can't lose you either, Mel!" Chris sighed.

"I won't die," Melinda laughed cockily, "You just get in the way of things, so you'll go back with them and find a way of saving this."

"We can send them back and I can stay here, and I do not get in the way of things."

Melinda stopped arguing, realising so many of the magical community were here for this.

"Anyway, I need four people at the back door, just in case they figure they can get in from here. Again, preferably two of them darklighters."

"I can't believe you work with darklighters." Paige said, and covered her mouth as she realised she had said it outline.

"We work with who ever we can now," Peyton explained, "There is no good or evil, you're either with or against Wyatt."

"Do we still have the guys working on the inside?" Henry asked, "Except Ryan of course."

"I hope so." Melinda sighed, and then got back to explaining where everybody was going to be situated in the house. She put as many figures as she could on the diagram of the house to show, some chess pieces, some coins, anything she could find.

Suddenly there was the sound of banging on the door. Melinda looked at everybody carefully, they had grouped everybody together that had wanted to help, who would be at the door now. She quickly grabbed Ben's crossbow, much to Chris' surprise and went to the door, opening it a crack with the crossbow sticking out of the crack.

"Hello Melinda."

Melinda did not have a chance to react, the door was kicked open, and Melinda was thrown back slightly. Chris stood up to stand his ground as he saw his older brother standing in the doorway with two demons behind him. How many other demons were around the house?

"Don't worry, this is just a little warning little brother." Wyatt laughed at Chris, and then raise his hand, tightening his hand into a fist, causing Chris to drop to his knees, trying to breath.

"Wyatt Matthew Halliwell!" Piper shouted at the boy, instantly realising who he was.

"Don't make me laugh, mother."

Piper stopped in her tracks. Her baby was a cold-hearted monster. She had been wondering since she had got to the past what it was that had made Melinda so cold, so protective of herself and her family and now she realised what it was, it was him. She watched in awe as her eldest son telekinetically threw her youngest son into a wall and stepped into the house.

"Don't go any further." Melinda shouted, holding the crossbow at Wyatt. Wyatt looked at rolled his eyes.

"You won't shoot me with that?"

"You willing to chance it?" Melinda eyed her older brother, while she heard movement at the doorway, "You take one step into this house and I swear your leader here will be killed in the most painful way he can imagine, and it'll be at my hands."

Phoebe looked at the demons at the doorway, who were now stepping away from the house. Then she looked at Melinda, who was still looking at Wyatt, not taking her eyes of him. Seeing Wyatt, dressed in all black, had scared her slightly, hearing the tone of his voice a little more, but seeing the coldness he had in his eyes to his family made it even worse. He had turned into such a monster, but how from the little innocent baby they had left in the past yesterday.

"Are you wondering about Ryan yet?" Wyatt asked, knowing exactly how to hurt Melinda, "He's not dead, don't worry, I'll make sure you're there to see that."

Wyatt stepped closer to Melinda, the arrow on the crossbow just inches away from him, "Go on then, what are you waiting for?"

"It's too easy," Melinda smirked, "I like my killings to be a little harder than this. And I'll take great pleasure when I kill you. Now if you're not here to fight, get out."

Wyatt sighed and tried to orb out but then looked at his sister.

"Not nice when you can't orb, is it? You're just lucky you've not had whips, energy balls, and whatever else you use torture you for hours on end."

With that, Wyatt walked out of the house.

"Don't think I won't be back."

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Wyatt was pissed off, he had let his sister get the upper hand. He could have easily taken the crossbow off her, but did not. And he knew she would have killed him, if he would have fought. It was too easy, they were too alike. They both liked the fight, don't get him wrong he loved the kill, but he liked the chase into the kill, and so did she.

He needed a way to get the tension from his body. He needed to be relaxed for the attic. It was eight hours away. He should really be with his 'army', explaining his plan but that could wait another hour or so. Besides, he had ran his plan against Nick last night, he could run it by the rest of the troops.

He waved his hand and a demonitrix shimmered into the wall. He always had a thing for the demonatrix.

"You summoned, my Lord?" The demonatrix bowed down, but knew exactly what he wanted. Wyatt pulled the female up and kissed her hard. This was going to be a very enjoyable hour.

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Chris and Melinda were alone in the kitchen. She needed to get it in his stubborn head that going back to the past was his best bet, but yes he was just as stubborn as she remembered.

"If I go back, you're left with one Halliwell down," Chris explained, "You need as many of us as you can get."

"No Chris, I need people who won't care if he's killed," Melinda explained, "And you will. You still love him as a brother."

Piper interrupted the siblings with a cough.

"Mom, we're sending you and aunts back soon." Chris said, turning to face her, then it hit him that was the first time he had called her mom since he had seen her again seven months ago.

"And Chris is going with you." Melinda nodded, earning a glare from Chris. No, I'm not.

"Maybe he should stay here," Piper sat with her two children, fearing for both their lives, "Wyatt is obviously strong, and you need as many as you can get. I understand why you don't want me and you aunts here, and I won't argue with you, although you'll be surprised if you can your aunts to agree with you. But you need Chris, we know that a demon will turn Wyatt evil and we've seen what that does to the city…"

"No." Melinda shook her head, "Chris needs to go back with you. You don't know what demon it is, and if it is one we've faced in the future, he can tell you about it easily."

Stopping the argument any further, the room filled with a flurry of orbs. All three Halliwells looked up to see who the newcomer was.

"Daddy!" Melinda chimed as she hugged Leo. He had always been around for her, after all she was his princess. Chris, on the other hand, stayed sat where he was and glared at the Elder.

"Leo? I thought I asked you to stay in the past, and where's Wyatt?" Piper asked, her brain not clicking on the fact that this was the future Leo.

"Piper!" Leo exclaimed, feeling like his heart could break after seeing his wife who had died just eight years ago.

"That's not your Leo," Chris was not impressed that his sister had allowed her father to orb into their hideout, "What do you want?"

"Nice to see you two, Chris." Leo stated. Even though Chris was his son, he had abandoned him after Piper's death, he slightly blamed him for her death, after all Chris had been the one who found Piper's body, and if he could heal maybe he could have helped her, but it was his inability to heal.

"Melinda, where have you been, I haven't been able to sense you in three months," Leo soon turned his attention to his 19-year-old princess, the only one of his children he felt any loyalty to, but mainly because she reminded him so much of Piper, "And what the hell happened to you? Let me heal you."

Leo started to heal the newly seen cuts on his daughter's arms and the scorch marks but she pulled away from him.

"You can't," Melinda shook her head, "They're erm…your son's doing."

Initially, Leo looked at Chris but saw the shock on his face.

"Do you think I would do something like that to hurt her? Do you really take me for that? No, that was your precious golden boy, you know the one who was really responsible for mom's death." Chris shut his eyes, he had just let his mother's death out, and who caused it. He looked to Piper, who was – naturally – shocked.

"So I die," Piper nodded her head, "No wonder you don't treat me like your mom." Piper simply looked at the young girl, who was now back in Leo's arms. Then she looked at Chris and hugged him.

"It's ok, we'll change that." She assured him, "You just have to get us back to the past."

"What's going on?" Leo asked, as he realised that there were a group of magical beings in the sitting room/bedroom of the hideout. There was obviously some planning going on.

"Wyatt's found us," Melinda stated, "Mine and Ryan's fault, don't go blaming Chris. Chris came back because Peyton went back to get him since I've been unavailable for the past three months. Anyway, Ryan got a message to Ben, who came and told me that Wyatt is planning an attack for midnight so we're getting the troops in rather than running this time. There's no point in running, but we're gonna send mom and the aunts back to their time and…"

"Breathe Melinda!" Leo and Chris both laughed at the young girl who had managed to rattle her speech off so quickly. They then both looked at each other and then looked at each other. Piper soon realised how much alike the two were.

"I'll get the rest of the Elder's we'll…"

"No, you won't dad. Wyatt hates you more than anybody, he'll kill you before any of us can do anything. You will go back up there where it's safe. If something does happen to us then we need you to carry on trying to stop Wyatt."

Leo sighed, knowing his only daughter was right, but he would rather take her up there too.

"Go on dad, run away like you're good at doing." Chris smirked at his wonderful absent father, but it only deserved a slap from his mother.

Leo had decided to ignore his son's comment and looked into his daughter's eyes. She had got her eyes from him, just like Wyatt. Chris however was a mixture of him and Piper.

"Ok," Leo whispered and kissed the top of Melinda's head, "You call me if you need me and I'll be straight down. No matter what the danger is."

With that, Leo orbed out, everybody assuming to Up There. Melinda looked at Chris.

"I'm glad you didn't bring dad back to the future."

"Well, one: I know Wyatt…you're right, he'll kill him straight away, and two: past Leo wouldn't have any powers in this time with him still being here."

Now Piper realised why Chris had asked for Leo and Wyatt to stay in the past. Wyatt would not have powers either, but wait, did that mean Paige and Phoebe die too?

"Anyway, we need to get back to this. Midnight is getting way too close and I have far too many plans to put into action."

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Ok people, review review review. Personally, I don't think this is my best work, but it's up for you to decide. Sad to say this story is coming to a close. Two more chapters, maybe three. Bit of a teaser to the next chapter: Melinda manages to get Chris back to the past with the Charmed Ones, but how does she get around his stubbon head? Surely he wouldn't just go, would he? Unless his life ends up in danger...