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Anyhoo...Thank you again to the reviews. I know I said this was the last chapter, but as I was writting I decided I couldn't end it how I had, so there will be one more chapter. But only one more, this time I mean it.

New Surprises

Chapter 7: What About Dad?

Melinda looked at her three cousins laying lifeless on the floor, this was all her fault. She could have saved them if she had given into Wyatt. The joys of hindsight, she thought to herself and rolled her eyes. Still refusing to show any emotion and let Wyatt know he had won, she looked up at him, blowing the strands of hair that had fallen in front of her eyes during the struggling with the two demons that held her.

"You're a heartless monster, you know that?" Melinda coldly stated.

"Only as heartless as you, Melinda," Wyatt smirked, "You could have saved them, but you didn't. You decided to save the last remaining few of the resistance instead. Doesn't that make you heartless?"

"You'd have killed them anyway." Melinda hated her brother at this point. He knew that she felt guilty and was using that to go on. She would have given in by now if it was not for Ryan, but where was he?

"Maybe I would," Wyatt stated, "But possibly not in front of you. Now are you going to tell me where they are, or do you have to go through one last torture session first?"

Not understanding what Wyatt was talking about, Melinda looked at him and shook her head. She could go through more of the torture, that was nothing new to her anymore, and there was still hope for Ryan and Chris. Although she was not expecting what Wyatt had planned.

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"Ok, you got a spell?" Chris asked his Aunt Phoebe, they had finally decided that enough time had passed to let Chris go to the future. After all, a battle would not last more than thirty minutes would it? None of their had, not including the one with the first Source, but he did have the brilliant idea of using the Hollow to steal all of their powers, but that was a build up to the battle. The actually battle of 10 minutes, tops.

"I've got the spell," Phoebe smiled, "I think so anyway." Phoebe could not remember her daughter's spell off the top of her head, but se thought this was close enough, but would let her sisters take a look at it first.

"That should work." Paige nodded, but gave it to Piper, she and Phoebe were the spell writers, Paige cringed when she thought of her first spell: 'the brittle winters give way to flowers of Spring. Ludlow is vanquished' It was never one of her best spells, but hey it got the job done.

"Ok, you really want to go back?" Piper asked, after looking over her sister's spell. This was one spell they needed to be certain on.

"I need to go back, Mel needs me."

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Ryan was dragged into the room, he looked around at all the dead bodies, all of them witches, since all over magical creatures went up in flames so they did not leave a trace. He looked to see Peyton's body on the ground, burnt. Either Wyatt had had demons throw fireballs at her or she had been electrocuted, and seeing Hannah in the room he guessed the latter. Then he saw Henry and Prue's body. God, he had killed his family. He looked up at Wyatt in disgust, still fighting the demons, but with no powers what was the use? That was when he saw Melinda. Still alive, thank God, but weakened and defeated. She may not have shown it, but he knew.

"Ryan!" she heard him call, he could see tears forming in her eyes.

"Let her go." Wyatt ordered the guards, to prove that he was not completely heartless. Melinda ran to her lover and hugged him. Ryan returned the hug and then grabbed her face between his hands, running them through her messy blonde hair.

"It's ok, don't worry baby." He comforted her and they kissed passionately. They knew this was going to be their last kiss, and made the most of it.

"I love you." Melinda finally cried, kicking herself inside for allowing her to show emotion in front of Wyatt, but Ryan was her weakness. Him and Chris, and Wyatt always knew that.

"I love you too." Ryan said, as Melinda was dragged away from him, but with protest. Two demons held her back, while Ryan stood there alone. Wyatt did not need to worry about him, since he no longer had any powers, he would not shimmer anywhere, and would not stand a chance to save Melinda. Having now powers made him mortal, and an easy kill. The only fun in this was too see the look on Melinda's face.

"Now, Ryan has been a bad bad boy, Melinda," Wyatt explained, as he walked towards his ex-best friend, "He's been working both sides. I also found out your other witches and demons you had on the inside. You can't get to me that easily you know."

Melinda stopped the tears and looked at Wyatt coldly.

"You know, I should have killed him as soon as I found out. Any other demon I would have done. But I know he's your weakness," Wyatt got into Melinda's face and grabbed it so she would look at him in the eyes, "And I want you to witness his death before I kill you," Wyatt walked away and formed an energy ball but then turned back to his 19-year-old sister, "Unless you tell me where the resistance are."

Melinda thought hard about it, could she save her lover? But then she heard Ryan's voice, Don't do it, he'll only kill me anyway. Melinda knew it was true but she could not help wonder. She loved Ryan, she could not see him die in front of her.

"Final chance, Melinda." Wyatt stated.

Please don't tell him baby, he's stripped my powers anyway, it's no use, Ryan pleaded telepathically again, I love you and we'll meet again soon. I promise.

Melinda let tears run down her face again as she looked into Ryan's green eyes for one last time.

"I'm sorry," Melinda shook her head, making Wyatt extinguish his energy ball thinking Melinda was going to talk, "I'm sorry Ryan. I love you but I can't tell him."

Ryan sighed with a smile, knowing Melinda would never hand over all the resistance and held his breath, waiting for his death.

Wyatt heard Melinda's apology to Ryan and straight away clenched his fist, strangling Ryan, who dropped to his knees, trying to breathe. Melinda cried harder, trying to drop to her knees as her boyfriend was being murdered in front of her.

Finally, Wyatt had had enough of watching his childhood friend dying and decided to break his neck, again with a snap of his wrist. Ryan's body dropped to the ground, his green eyes blank.

"Ryan!"

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"Ok, say the spell," Chris breathed nervously as he stared at the Triquetra on the wall, from earlier on when Peyton had come back to the past to get him. Peyton. Chris wondered how she was. She was not as strong as Melinda, emotionally and physically. Losing her mother at 11 made Melinda grow up fast, block her emotions from everybody, fight demons when she had to, but Peyton never had to do that. Aunt Phoebe was still around until she was 15, that was the reason they all had to go and find a new hideout. Wyatt had caught Phoebe and killed her, but not before she gave in and told them where the children were. Wyatt must have become an expert at torture then, Phoebe would not give up her two daughters unless she was completely weak, but then he went back to Melinda and remembered what she had said about glamouring. Was that the trick Wyatt had used on Phoebe?

His mind was drawn back to the situation now, he had to get back to the future to now to see who was left to save. If he could he would bring Melinda back with him. He could help him with changing the future.

"Are you sure you're ready?" He heard his Aunt Paige.

"Paige, please. All of you say the spell."

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Wyatt's demons had let go of Melinda, allowing her to crawl to Ryan, try and heal him, but it was no use. Ryan was dead and she could not heal the dead.

"Move out." Wyatt ordered his demons, but not before taking a crossbow from one of the darklighters. He looked at Hannah, who was still looking down on her eldest female cousin, slightly sympathetic. Also confused at how she had not shown any emotion for her family but Ryan…

"Hannah, out." Wyatt ordered her. Without another word, Hannah left the room. Wyatt looked down at the sobbing body of his sister. Suddenly feeling a sense of sympathy for her, he started to walk away.

"So aren't you going to kill me too?" Melinda asked, sensing Wyatt moving away from her, "Or don't you think I've suffered enough? You think I have to stay alive after seeing everybody I care about die."

Melinda looked up and stared at her brother, why was he being so cold? Wait, that was her too. She vaguely remembered Chris thinking that about her earlier on. She and Wyatt were alike, too much alike.

"I hate you, you know that?" Melinda shouted at her brother, standing up and looking into his blue eyes, which were starting to soften, "You took my mother and then my aunts and uncles. Don't you realise that you're killing everybody that could have helped you? You turned against what the family fought for and killed us for not standing with you, where does that make sense Wyatt?"

Wyatt was about to say something but Melinda stopped him.

"When we were kids, I looked up to you. I thought you were the best brother anybody could have. You protected me when I needed it, you helped me when I asked for it and you listened to me when I was upset or hyper or just had something I wanted to share with you. What the hell changed you? I'll never understand why you turned your back on us, nor why you got a sudden need for power. The day you killed mom, you killed any love I had for you, that was the day you stopped being my brother. I will always hate you for that. Now you make me suffer by killing the last few remaining family members I have, AND the love of my life, but you're going to leave me! When's it gonna stop, Wy?"

But Melinda was not waiting for an answer, instead she formed an energy ball in her hand, but she was not quick enough. Wyatt had already fired off an arrow from the crossbow, hitting Melinda in the stomach.

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Chris had just stepped through the portal as he saw Melinda and Wyatt head to head. Melinda shouting at her older brother for everything he had done. He looked around the room to see the dead bodies of all the witches from the resistance, and his family. Wyatt and Melinda had obviously not realised he was here.

"Now you make me suffer by killing the last few remaining family members I have," he heard Melinda shout, she was also crying, "AND the love of my life, but you're going to leave me! When's it gonna stop, Wy?"

He watched carefully, Wyatt was about to let the crossbow he had hold of down, but Melinda formed an energy ball and was about to throw it at her brother as Wyatt fired off an arrow.

A lump caught in his throat as he saw Melinda drop to her knees in pain, the darklighter arrow sat through her stomach and out of her back. He looked to his older brother, who actually seemed sorry for what he had to do.

"Now you can join your family and the love of your life." Wyatt stated, trying to gain a level of composure about him but Chris could just see tears forming in his blue eyes. Chris let our a harsh breath, that struggled to get over the growing lump in his throat.

Wyatt looked around to see Chris falling to his knees, tears in his eyes. He must have seen him shoot Melinda. For a moment he thought about loading the crossbow again, thinking back to when Bianca had brought him from the past. Wyatt still hated that fact that he had got his powers back, and that he had knocked him out even if it was for a few seconds, but after killing one sibling he could not do it again. Not tonight. Chris could wait. Wyatt looked for a minute making Chris wonder what he was doing, and then left the hideout.

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Chris watched Wyatt leave, wondering if it was a trick. Wyatt could easily kill him right now, so why didn't he? But then he remember the tears in Wyatt's house, killing Melinda was probably not on his MO, unless she attempted to kill him, which she did.

Melinda! Chris ran to his sisters side who was in pain, the poison was taking over her body.

"Chris!" Melinda smiled weakly, "What are you doing here?"

"Coming to get you back for shooting me with the darkligher arrow," Chris smiled at Melinda, even though she was facing death she looked so peaceful, "Looks like Wyatt beat me too it."

"You saw?" She whispered and then pulled a face of agony as she felt the poison running through her. Chris nodded his head, tears falling down his cheeks. Melinda raised her hand and wiped one of his cheeks.

"Don't cry," Melinda smiled gently, her eyes showing a sign of warmth, "I'll still be with you."

"I'll take you back to the past with me, Leo can heal you." Chris said and then thought, Leo! "Leo! Dad, get your Elder ass down here!" Chris shouted to the ceiling.

"No, Chris," Melinda shook her head, "If I wanted dad to heal me, I'd call for him. Everyone else I care about is dead, let me die ok. You go back to the past and finish what you started."

Chris shook his head and started to move Melinda's body. "No, I need you to carry on."

"Chris!" Melinda shouted, but then started coughing. Chris looked down at her, into her sea blue eyes, knowing she did not want to be saved. She was going to die and she was happy about it, "We can't stop Wyatt here, but you can save him."

Chris finally nodded and kissed Melinda's forehead.

"But can you do me a favour before you go?"

Chris looked and saw that she was pointing at the arrow through her abdomen. Nodding his head, telekinetically he pulled it out, sending it flying to the other side of the room. He winced hearing Melinda scream out in pain.

Once the pain had died down, Melinda opened her eyes and looked deep into Chris' jade green eyes. She took his hand and kissed it.

"I love you. Always remember I'll be with you while you're saving the future."

"I love you too."

Chris kissed Melinda's forehead again and stood up, looking around the room seeing the bodies of his three cousins and Melinda's boyfriend. He took the spell from his pocket and read it, seeing a portal open up for the fourth time that day. He walked towards the blue portal but sighed as he looked around and saw Melinda watching him, while she was in agony.

"Go."

Once Melinda saw Chris step through the portal, and the portal close, she slowly got to her knees. Reminding herself of what she had gone through for three months, she forced herself to crawl to Ryan's lifeless body. She collapsed to the ground and placed her head on his chest.

"We will meet again soon." And with that Melinda closer her eyes, feeling the poison run through her body.

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I killed her off, I had to be done though, just to keep Chris going, I'm sorry. I couldn't really bring her to the past could I? I mean the Charmed Ones don't really like her after what she did to Chris and Paige! Ok, review review review...please...you know you love me. The next chapter is ALL Chris by the way.