Title: I Am Dead
Author: Za Webmaster Authoress
Posted On: February 2?, 2007
Summary: Chris has killed himself. No one in the past knows anything. Wyatt watched his brother die. And Chris is a Shadower, so death may not come as easy as he wanted it to. But has a plan to outwit fate. Sequel to 'I Am Alive'.
Note: I posted this earlier than I thought I was going too... Means you're all happy though! Hope ya like it.
Rated For: Language, emotional writing, trauma, intense sequences, and excessively emotional rantings. Some blood/gore, not as much as before.

Chapter 2: Dealing with Death

Wyatt orbed into the attic of the Halliwell Manor, his brothers dead body in his arms. His bright blue eyes were glassy from the salty tears, but they held the unmistakable ferocity of power.

"Chris!" Paige and Phoebe rushed over to the fallen witch-lighter, while Piper lingered by the Book of Shadows. Leo had left; gone to 'check with the Elder's as he loved to call it.

Wyatt, overcome with fury, knocked the two younger sisters away with a flick of his wrist. Their feet skidded on the ground, but they remained standing. They all stared at Chris's body, and paled.

"Oh no. Is he.." Phoebe trailed off, fearing the answer.

"Dead? Yes. Chris is dead. Thanks to you all." Wyatt growled, gently placing his brother's body on the ground. The Shadower Chris stared, leaning against the wall with an amused expression on his translucent features.

"No." Paige whispered. Her mouth suddenly felt dry, and she felt tears prickling her eyes.

"Oh yes Aunt Paige. Chris is dead, and I assume he took his secrets to the grave." Wyatt hissed, the apathetic tone shocking the members of the room. Except for Chris, he knew much better than to expect compassion from Lord Wyatt.

"What secrets?" Piper demanded, taking a step towards him, with Leo following like a timid and frightened cat.

"His identify I'm guessing, from your severe hatred of him." Wyatt retorted.

Chris's eyes widened at the words leaving his brother's mouth. "Don't you dare Wyatt." he growled, though he knew that no one would hear him. Unless he decided it, which was not very likely to happen.

"How did it happen?" Paige asked, biting her lip in an attempt to stop the tears from falling.

Phoebe was allowing a few tears to fall, but her firm gaze was unmoved. Piper however, seemed only to have rage in her. And perhaps a hint of satisfaction at Chris's demise.

"I killed himself. He stabbed himself, and wouldn't let me heal him. I watched him die, and he laughed. He laughed as he died." Wyatt shuddered at the memory. Chris had been changed, and it was obvious.

It hurt Wyatt to see his brother like that. Heartless, icy, harsh, vicious. So uncaring of his life. He had wanted to die, and that one fact broke Wyatt's tyrannical attitude in half a second. His love for his brother was enough for him to break through.

But his brother's death was more than enough to send him back to evil with added spite.

"He laughed?" Paige blinked, allowing a single tear to fall.

"Yes Aunt Paige. He laughed. Chris is changed. A Shadower." was the sharp reply.

"What I don't get is why he would want to die at all." Piper spoke up.

"Because I killed Melinda and Prue. Paige's daughters." Wyatt responded calmly, acting as if he didn't care that he had killed them. He hadn't wanted to do it, but it was needed. They had attacked him after all.

"My daughters?" Paige rasped, choking on her tears.

"Yes."

Paige swivelled around to face her eldest sister. "YOU LET MY DAUGHTERS DIE!"

"I didn't know!" Piper protested meekly, shocked at her sister's display of rage.

"And that makes it okay!? Chris begged on his hands and knees for Leo to heal them, and you demanded that they die! You sent my children to their deaths and Chris along with them! He wouldn't have tried to kill himself two times if you hadn't let them die!" Paige shrieked, fists clenched at her sides and pure fury twisting her pretty features into such a hate-filled mask that it rivaled Chris's.

"I'm sorry Paige!" Piper yelped, raising her arms in front of her face for fear of being physically punished.

Phoebe ran to Paige, placing her hands over her wrists to stop Paige from back-handing Piper. Though she could hardly say she didn't deserve it.

"What do you mean, twice?" Wyatt demanded sharply.

"He tried to kill himself after the two girls died." Phoebe replied, putting a comforting arm around the crying Paige.

Wyatt paled visibly, and looked as if someone had just told him Chris had come back and killed himself again. "You're serious?" he breathed, scarcely believing that Chris's Shadower ran that deep.

"Yeah." Piper spoke up firmly. But there was a hint of nervousness, as if she feared a reaction from everyone would be triggered by anything.

"Tell me. Now." Wyatt ordered, power blazing in his icy blue eyes.

immortalwizardpirateelf-fan: Ha, who doesn't. Thanks for the enthuisiasm.

Blue Eyed Dragon Girl: Yeah, way too good look'n to live without! I could've made it all into one story, but two seemed better to my very odd logic. Or rather logiclessness.

History Buff 1990: /bursts out laughing/ Chill, the update is here! I get that way too sometimes. Other than the 'sane' thing, yeah, me, sane? Not so much...

Amantine: Thanks, I'm flattered! I'm glad you like it.

MissHaunted-MoonLight: How'd ya like the reactions? And that's not the half of it, just wait! Though you may have to wait a little bit longer than you had to with the prequel...

Ineyda: /grins wickedly/ Nerves? You should see me in real life. I'm either dead cowardly or going head on. No inbetween. Tis odd. I'm glad you got an account, and post the story! I write for me, myself and I. If I please people, then it's a bonus! Same thing should go for all writers. As for what people think: who cares? The only thing that truly matters are the people who like it, love it, and yourself. That's it. See ya later, and thanks for the review.